We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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