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• The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Poetry, a Metrical Essay...
• The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye.
  The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract....
• Where go the poet's lines? Answer, ye evening tapers!
  Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers!...
• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• No generalization is worth a damn...including this one. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
• Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with the necessities. -- Oliver Wendell Holme