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!
(The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858)
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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