Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jammin…

Thomas Huxley
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Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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