Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,
    I watched that wretched man,
    And since, I never dare to write
    As funny as I can.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “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)

    “The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand
    The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.”
    —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)