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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
Medical Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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