Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. — a remark

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“Those are the hours when friendship means the most, when we feel that we come nearer than at any other time to our intimates.”

Describing friendship as especially meaningful during periods of suffering · Letter concerning bereavement

About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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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