“I have attempted to write the following account of myself, a…”

“I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.”

— Charles Darwin

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Title: Wikiquote: Charles Darwin
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volume I, chapter II: "Autobiography", page 27

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

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