“Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Context: Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!
Lords of creation, whom your ladies rule,—
The world's great masters, when you 're out of school,—
Learn the brief moral of our evening's play
Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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