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A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! - Oliver Wendell Holmes
" "A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them;
Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!
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About Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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There is that glorious Epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Americans when they die go to Paris."
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