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Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Over the Teacups, 1891

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Born: August 29, 1809

Died: October 7, 1894 (aged 85)

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