You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them... It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy.
(Elsie Venner, 1859)
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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