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It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
Anatomist
Anthropologist
Biologist
Carcinologist
Ichthyologist
Linguist
Naturalist
Paleontologist
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Physiologist
Lexington
Kentucky
T. H. Huxley
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