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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 646
AUTHOR: Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
QUOTATION: A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
ATTRIBUTION: THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, address on university education, delivered at the formal opening of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 12, 1876.—Science and Education (vol. 3 of Collected Essays), p. 236 (1898, reprinted 1968).
SUBJECTS: Freedom