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• You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fu
  But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done...
• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
• I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here
  But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!...
• As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
• 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 world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- A Rhymed Lesson, Urania...
• When the last reader reads no more. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Last Reade