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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes: Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
         

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.


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