Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up on…

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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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). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell, p.214
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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). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell, p.214

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