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Time to Depart (1995)
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Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind. This was the true city: greed, corruption and violence.
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'Do you kill people?'
'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.'
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Smartness always helps in gaining access to the houses of the wealthy. Anyone with a clean face is acceptable to thugs.
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He wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence.
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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
Lindsey Davis
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August 21, 1949
(age 75)
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