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Economic literature1 quote
Improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superseded their utility. — Charles Babbage · 1832Political speech1 quote
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1838