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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote

What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

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What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

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