All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts.” They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts.” They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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