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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
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