Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. ✨ Oliver Wen…

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). Professor At The Breakfast Table, p.117, Reprint Services Corporation
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