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Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
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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For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
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