Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1904). The professor at the breakfast-table
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table, p.42, Reprint Services Corporation
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ✨ 1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Tabl … ▶
The Amen of nature is always a flower. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Library of Alexandria
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873 … ▶

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