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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

«When the last reader reads no more.»
«And since, I never dare to write / As funny as I can.»
«Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.»
«Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?»
«I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.»
«Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!»
«Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years»
«Easy crying widows take new husbands soonest; there's nothing like wet weather for transplanting»
«I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.»
«Old age is fifteen years older than I am.»