Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “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)

    “Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.”
    —Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

    “What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)