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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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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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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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