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О́ливер Уэ́нделл Холмс-старший — американский врач, поэт и писатель.

✵ 29. Август 1809 – 7. Октябрь 1894
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“Where go the poet's lines?
Answer, ye evening tapers!
Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls,
Speak from your folded papers!”

The Poet's Lot; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.”

Источник: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.

“The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.”

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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).

“Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day?”

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).

“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”

No Time like the old Time; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“What a miserable thing it is to be poor.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes книга Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner (1859)