What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactur…

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). Professor At The Breakfast Table, p.25, Reprint Services Corporation
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