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• The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Preface to Corruption and Intolerance...
• When the last reader reads no more. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Last Reade
• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Run, if you like, but try to keep your breath; Work like a man, but don't be worked to death.
  -- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr....
• Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Lines by a Clerk...
• A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)...
• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
• Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Cambridge Churchyard...