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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i...
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...
Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii...
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes ['The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table',1858]...