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Some folks can look so busy doin' nothin' that they seem indispensable.
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As quoted in Saturday Review? (18 March 1944), p. 19
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Variant: Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

 

Kin Hubbard (Frank McKinney Hubbard)

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