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"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent."

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About Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and essayist associated with the Fireside Poets. He is known for poems such as Old Ironsides and for influential prose writing.

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