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What sorts of sin?"

Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem absolutely natural.


Elspeth Huxley

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THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
THOMAS HUXLEY The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
THOMAS HUXLEY The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
THOMAS HUXLEY Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
THOMAS HUXLEY Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
THOMAS HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
THOMAS HUXLEY Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
THOMAS HUXLEY Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...
ALDOUS HUXLEY The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part...
THOMAS HUXLEY Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he...
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