Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    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)

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

    Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.
    Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

    Year after year beheld the silent toil
    That spread his lustrous coil;
    Still as the spiral grew,
    He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
    Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
    Built up its idle door,
    Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
    —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)