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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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