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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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