[The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]@TWC D-Link book
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

CHAPTER I
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What was levity in the time of the Tudors grew to regicide and revolution in the age of the Stuarts." Who was that boarder that just whispered something about the Macaulay-flowers of literature ?--There was a dead silence .-- I said calmly, I shall henceforth consider any interruption by a pun as a hint to change my boarding-house.

Do not plead my example.

If _I_ have used any such, it has been only as a Spartan father would show up a drunken helot.

We have done with them.
-- If a logical mind ever found out anything with its logic ?--I should say that its most frequent work was to build a pons asinorum over chasms which shrewd people can bestride without such a structure.

You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.


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