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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1089 |
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AUTHOR:
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935) |
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QUOTATION:
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Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum—but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Justice OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, letter to Oswald Ryan, March 8, 1911.—Francis Biddle, Mr. Justice Holmes, pp. 138–39 (1942). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Life |
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