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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
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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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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