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Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
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The world rolls round for ever like a mill;
It grinds out death and life and good and ill;
It has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
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For life is but a dream whose shapes return,
Some frequently, some seldom, some by night
And some by day.
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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:
November 23, 1834
Died:
June 3, 1882
(aged 47)
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