"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.“
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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