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• Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.
  -- O. W. Holme...
• The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• 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]...
• 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...
• The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii...