“I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,— give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen.”

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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