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Both legally and familiarly, as well as in my books, I now have only one name, which is my own.
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When one can read, can penetrate the enchanted realm of books, why write?
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It's terrible to think, as I do every time I begin a book, that I no longer have, and never have had, any talent.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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
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January 28, 1873
Died:
August 3, 1954
(aged 81)
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