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Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.

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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
Philosopher
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Physiologist
Lexington
Kentucky
T. H. Huxley
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Easier
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Good
Eyes
Unfortunately
Pleasure
Print
Happiness
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Eye
Easily
Effaced
Less
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Evil
Sorrow
Loudly
Pain
Doors
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