"Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."

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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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