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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
Approximate author period: c. 1888 AD · industrial
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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- Approximate author period: c. 1888 AD · industrial
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