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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
Greatest
Enemy
Littles
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Life
Cupid
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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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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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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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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
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