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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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- Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: life dates 1809 to 1894. Wikidata Q319829, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319829 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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