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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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