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“I want to send you something, and, if I can work out a motive to my satisfaction, mean to do it one of these days.”

Showing that he preferred writing with an authentic motive rather than merely producing work on demand · Letter to Edward Everett Hale, March 28, 1870

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

29 August 1809–7 October 1894

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead 7 October 1894 in Boston, was one of the most recognizably versatile figures in nineteenth-century American culture: physician, medical reformer, anatomist, professor, poet, novelist, essayist, conversational satirist, and public…

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