You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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