Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tire… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.

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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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