Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor.
(The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. It is by little things that we know ourselves. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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