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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (c. 1809-1894)
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
  • From a Valedictory Address by Oliver Wendell Holmes, delivered to the graduating class of the Bellevue Hospital College on March 2, 1871.

 

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