“Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things, — things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. I.

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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