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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.
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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
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A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.
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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
Luc de Clapiers
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Born:
August 6, 1715
Died:
May 28, 1747
(aged 31)
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