“Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
“Age, like distance, lends a double charm.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
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