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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and writer who made significant contributions to the field of medicine and influenced American literature and culture. He was a pioneer in the use of ether as an anesthetic and a leading figure in the medical community of his time.

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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

“And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”

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Book:The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source: The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”

Should Years Children Political Born Education Hundred

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”

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Book:The Poet at the Breakfast Table

Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.