Historical Fictionistas discussion

I guess this is kind of a request for a recommendation...? I wasn't sure where else to put this request.

Anyway...I'm trying to find this old quote from an ancient Egyptian lesson for scribes-in-training. It tells why it's so much more awesome to be a writer than to choose any other occupation. I used to have it saved on my cloud drive, but it seems I've deleted it by mistake, and Google is not helping me.

I figured some other history nut out there might have saved it somewhere. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? It goes something like, "Be a writer. Don't be a farmer or a merchant or somebody who has to work hard. A writer just sits around all day having fun, and the world can't function without him." Obviously I paraphrase broadly, but that's the general idea of it.

http://wordinfo.info/unit/2654/ip:14/...
May not be what you're looking for (and more of an anecdote than anything) but I thought it was close:

One high-ranking Egyptian official advised his son to “love letters” for through their knowledge “you may protect yourself from hard labor of any kind, and be a magistrate of high repute.”

Here's the full text on Google books search. Found in Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History By L. S. Stavrianos

It's from the Papyrus Lansing, written by a man named Nebmarenakht, a scribe advising his apprentice to learn his letters well. Dates to the reign of Senusret III.

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/w%...

Iset wrote: "It's from the Papyrus Lansing, written by a man named Nebmarenakht, a scribe advising his apprentice to learn his letters well. Dates to the reign of Senusret III."

This? http://www.utexas.edu/courses/classic...

Oh, I see you added a link. Thanks, Iset. :)

That's the one! Thanks, Iset! (And Tracey, who messaged me with it.)

And thanks for your link, too, Becky. That's a good one as well!

Gah! I knew the papyrus you were talking about--Barbara Mertz mentions it--but didn't know the name. Thanks from me, too.