“ Nature is wiser than we give her credit for being; never wiser than in her dealings with the old. ”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups (1891). copy citation
| Author | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
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| Source | Over the Teacups |
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| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2689/2689-h/2689-h.htm |
Context
“Some are gazing upon the pyramids while he is staring at his andirons. Some are settling the tariff and fixing the laws of suffrage and taxation while he is dozing over the weather bulletin, and going to sleep over the obituaries in his morning or evening paper.
Nature is wiser than we give her credit for being; never wiser than in her dealings with the old. She has no idea of mortifying them by sudden and wholly unexpected failure of the chief servants of consciousness. The sight, for instance, begins to lose something of its perfection long before its deficiency calls the owner's special attention to it.”
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