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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on Anniversary

1841–1935 United States

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Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never have survived for eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding, the rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring wherefrom I have drawn the power to write the words. She is the poem of my life.

Attribution reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

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