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“Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Zdroj: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. I.
Zdroj: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), p. 266 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 (1892)
A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
The Poet's Lot; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Oliver Wendell Holmes kniha Elsie Venner
Elsie Venner (1859)
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.”
Zdroj: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Zdroj: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. VI.
Zdroj: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.
The last Leaf; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes kniha Elsie Venner
Elsie Venner (1859)
“O hearts that break and give no sign
Save whitening lip and fading tresses!”
The Voiceless; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"The Two Streams", Ch. VI.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)
The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
The Boys; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
The Deacon's Masterpiece; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.”
Chanson without Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
No Time like the old Time; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“What a miserable thing it is to be poor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes kniha Elsie Venner
Elsie Venner (1859)
“Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
