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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Happiness
Truth
Steadily
Wheels
Turning
Keeps
Universal
Joy
Beauty

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