Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quote

The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a "settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver gives the individual thus armed.


The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)


The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a settler in the...

The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a settler in the...

The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a settler in the...

The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a settler in the...