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In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday
Age: 75 †
Born: 1791
Born: September 22
Died: 1867
Died: August 26
Chemist
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Physicist
Scientist
London
England
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