A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go bac… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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About Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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