The books we read should be chosen with great care, that th… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (29 August 1809 – 8 October 1894) was an American physician, writer, poet, and the father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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