"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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"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.“
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