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This is one of the advantages of middle age: people have got used to their bodies and to their faults; they know how to use them, to spare them, and they do not expect too much.
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The greatest minds, the most original, have the least stamp of the age, the most of that dominant natural reality which belongs to all great minds.... The clearest eyes must see by the light of their own hour.
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Sometimes winter days come in autumn, just as hours of old age and middle age seem to start out of their places in the due rotation of life.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Born:
June 9, 1837
Died:
February 26, 1919
(aged 81)
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