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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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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Physician
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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