There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much s… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (8 March 1841 – 6 March 1935) was an American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932; he was often called "The Great Dissenter", and was the son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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