Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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