“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly Vol. 4 (1859), p. 505.
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