Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “And when you stick on conversation’s burrs,
    Don’t strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.”
    —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)

    “Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
    Georgius Secundus was then alive,—
    Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “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)