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So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
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We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
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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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Born:
February 2, 1859
Died:
July 8, 1939
(aged 80)
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