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)

    “Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “And silence, like a poultice, comes
    To heal the blows of sound.”
    —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)