Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.