I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.


'Scholastic and Bedside Teaching', Introductory Lecture to the Medical Class of Harvard University (6 Nov 1867). In Medical Essays 1842-1882 (1891), 302.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries....

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries....

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries....

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries....