Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “He took the paper, and I watched,
    And saw him peep within;
    At the first line he read, his face
    Was all upon the grin.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “The fourth; he broke into a roar;
    The fifth; his waistband split;
    The sixth; he burst five buttons off,
    And tumbled in a fit.”
    —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)