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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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T. H. Huxley
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
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The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
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In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
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A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.
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I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.
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