[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.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
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The decently comfortable.
3.

The very rich, who are apt to be irreligious.
4.

The very poor, who are apt to be immoral.
-- The cut nails of machine-divinity may be driven in, but they won't clinch.
-- The arguments which the greatest of our schoolmen could not refute were two: the blood in men's veins, and the milk in women's breasts.
-- Humility is the first of the virtues--for other people.
-- Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief of a large one.
The Poor Relation had been fidgeting about and working her mouth while all this was going on.

She broke out in speech at this point.
I hate to hear folks talk so.


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