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• The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes ['The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table',1858]...
• Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii...
• Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i...
• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i...