The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind,…

Thomas Huxley
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). T. H. Huxley on Education, p.85, Cambridge University Press
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