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Gryll Grange (1860)
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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool with which men play like children and cut their own fingers.
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I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.
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But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
October 18, 1785
Died:
January 23, 1866
(aged 80)
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