It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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