Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    Don’t you stay at home of evenings?
    Don’t you love a cushioned seat
    In a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be “consistent.”
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)