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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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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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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.
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