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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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