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Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
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One of a series of exchanges when Richard Owen repeated generally repudiated claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture. Athenaeum (13 April 1861) p.498; Browne Vol 2, p.159.

 

Thomas Henry Huxley

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