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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!
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.
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Shade
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Evade
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Maids
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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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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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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