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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29th, 1809

Died: October 7th, 1894

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