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The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With the Story of Iris - Page 87
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 410 pages
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Gems for the Fireside: Comprising the Most Unique, Touching, Pithy, and ...

Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...Ward Seecher. W« must have a weak spot or two in a characta;' before we can love it much. Peer pie that do not laugh or cry, or take more of anything...are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't care most for those flatpattern flowers that press best in the herbarium. (Holmes, That man Is great,...
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Book Chat, Volume 3

William George Jordan, Adr Schade van Westrum - 1888 - 644 pages
...LIST. 2Э BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS. We muet have a weak spot or two In a character before we eau love U much. People that do not laugh or cry or take more...anything than Is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies —Dr. Olirfr W. Holmes. Harshn, Daríd A....
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Vision: A Magazine for Youth, Volume 1

1888 - 640 pages
...of loved ones. We therefore bid you God speed in the pursuit of every genuine pleasure. WE must find a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People who rto not laugh, or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary...
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The Holmes Birthday Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 482 pages
...high-water to suit a fishing-party as to change these periods. THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TAELE. We must have a weak spot or two in a character before...anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't always care most for those flat-pattern...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin: With an Appendix ...

1889 - 934 pages
...as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well. t. HILL— Verses' Written on a Window in Scotland^ We must have a weak spot or two in a character before...it much. People that do not laugh or cry. or take moreof anything than is good for them, or useanything but dictionary-words, are admirable sub;ects...
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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: The professor at the breakfast-table ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 354 pages
...well as more goodness, than all the partners you have waltzed with this winter put together. Yet^no man was known to have- loved her, or even to have...in a character before we can love it much. People that^dp not laugh or cry_, or take more of anything than is good for_them, or_use anything Tut djctionary-worda,...
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The Oliver Wendell Holmes Year Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1894 - 240 pages
...high-water to suit a fishing-party as to change these periods. THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. We must have a weak spot or two in a character before...anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't always care most for those flat-pattern...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction, of daily life ? — Goethe. _ We must have a weak spot or two in a character before...anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't always care most for those flatpattern...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

1896 - 1224 pages
...Scotland. 0 Douglas, O Douglas ! Tendir and trewe. c. SIB RICHARD HOLLAND — The Buke of Howlat. St. XXXI. To many a watchful night ! sleep with it now ! Yet...sweet As he whose brow with homely biggen bound Snores U good for them, or use anything but dictionary-words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But...
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The Two Altheas

Edith E. Horsman - 1897 - 430 pages
...XIV. A GUEST-CHAMBER. " The little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love." WORDSWORTH. " We must have a weak spot or two in a character before...anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't always care for those flat-pattern...
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