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You remind me of people who bring along a little box of cakes and leave it in the hall, saying to themselves: 'There'll be plenty of time to produce these later,' and then pick them up again when they go.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Adventures happen to people who, by their composure, their unshakableness, and their scorn of the unusual may be said to deserve them. They leave little or no trace.
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One always writes for someone. Rarely for several people. Never for everyone.
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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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