I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Poet, essayist, physician

August 29th, 1809 - October 7th, 1894

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