Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Age, like distance, lends a double charm. - Oliver Wendell Holmes