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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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Virtue is so praiseworthy that wicked people practice it from self-interest.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.
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Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
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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:
August 6, 1715
Died:
May 28, 1747
(aged 31)
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