OWOliver Wendell Holmes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Born 1809 AD; death year unknown

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1809 AD

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

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02c. 1809 AD

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

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03c. 1809 AD

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

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04c. 1809 AD

When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

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