Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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