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No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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