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I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	The Poet at the Breakfast Table
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Knowledge--it excites prejudices to call it science--is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	The Poet at the Breakfast Table
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words . . .	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	The Poet at the Breakfast Table