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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
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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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
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