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• I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
• The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
• Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
• It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he…
• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…
• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers…
• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

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