“I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament.”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=sIE7AAAAYAAJ&q=%22I+have+always+considered+my+face+a+convenience+rather+than+an+ornament%22&pg=PA103#v=onpage to James Russell Lowell (18 March 1882)

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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