The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly …

Thomas Huxley
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.128, Cambridge University Press
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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