I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise mys…

Thomas Huxley
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ✨ Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest. Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 84), 1997.
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