Wendell Holmes House

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    “The parson was working his Sunday’s text,—
    Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed
    At what the—Moses—was coming next.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “And silence, like a poultice, comes
    To heal the blows of sound.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”
    —Tony Benn (b. 1925)