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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.»
«Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden.»
«The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.»
«I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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distinguishable, good shape, gorilla, gorillas, Pretty Woman
«In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.»