Wendell Holmes House

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    “Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!
    Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!
    O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,—
    Depart,—be off,—excede,—evade,—erump!”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “Little-minded people’s thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes’ conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    ““No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly. “It is always awkward doing business with an alias.””
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “‘Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)