Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quote about age from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table - A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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“ A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ”
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). copy citation

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Author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Source The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Topic age shock
Date 1858
Language English
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quote about age from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table - A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quote about age from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table - A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.