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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Thomas Huxley

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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.
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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
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And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
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