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I like children I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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