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Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

Quote by Charles Babbage about order, light, work, time

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be...

Quote by Walter Bagehot about circumstances, habits, man