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Francis Maitland Balfour
British biologist (1851–1882).
Born November 10th, 1851 in Edinburgh.
Died July 19th, 1882 at 30 years old in Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey (mountaineering accident).
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel