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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes: Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
         

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.


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