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Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a medium hired at a guinea a seance.

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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
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I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Fact I know and Law I know but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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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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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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