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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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