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To be always right — was there a more enraging faculty in the world? Was it a faculty, or a virtue? If it was a virtue, it was certainly the most disagreeable of all the virtues — a tyrannical prig of a virtue, the sort of virtue which makes you want to go and wallow in vice.
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There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
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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
Patricia Wentworth
Born:
November 10, 1877
Died:
January 28, 1961
(aged 83)
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