“But Memory blushes at the sneer,
And Honor turns with frown defiant,
And Freedom, leaning on her spear,
Laughs louder than the laughing giant.”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes

A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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