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"No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well,-parent, child, brother, sister, intimate."

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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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