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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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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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