[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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Go! be useful, be honorable and honored, be just, be charitable, talk pure reason, and help to disenchant the world by the light of an achromatic understanding.

Goodbye! Where is my Beranger?
I must read a verse or two of "Fretillon." Fair play for all.

But don't claim incompatible qualities for anybody.
Justice is a very rare virtue in our community.

Everything that public sentiment cares about is put into a Papin's digester, and boiled under high pressure till all is turned into one homogeneous pulp, and the very bones give up their jelly.

What are all the strongest epithets of our dictionary to us now?
The critics and politicians, and especially the philanthropists, have chewed them, till they are mere wads of syllable-fibre, without a suggestion of their old pungency and power.
Justice! A good man respects the rights even of brute matter and arbitrary symbols.


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