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• Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)...
• Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Cambridge Churchyard...
• To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye.
  The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract....
• Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Music-Grinde...
• People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i...
• And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- A Rhymed Lesson, Urania...
• The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)...