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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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