Try to learn something about everything and everything about something…

Thomas Huxley
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). T. H. Huxley on Education, p.10, Cambridge University Press
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). T. H. Huxley on Education, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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