“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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