Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quote

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.


"Natural Law", 32 Harvard Law Review 40, 41 (1918)


There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.