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“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”

— Charles Darwin

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Charles Darwin
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Context

volume I, chapter IX: "Life at Down", page 385; letter to William Darwin Fox (24 October 1852)

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Darwin, Charles. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Charles Darwin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

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