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FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table ........ [Etext #751] aofbt10.txt The Professor at the Breakfast Table ....... [Etext #2665] prabt10.txt The Poet at the Breakfast Table ............ [Etext #2666] ptabt10.txt Over the Teacups ........................... [Etext #2689] teacp10.txt Elsie Venner ............................... [Etext #2696] elsie10.txt The Guardian Angel ......................... [Etext #2697] angel10.txt A Mortal Antipathy ......................... [Etext #2698] antip10.txt Passages from an Old Volume of Life ........ [Etext #2706] pages10.txt Medical Essays ............................. [Etext #2700] medic10.txt The Entire Gutenberg Files of Holmes ....... [Etext #3252] ohent10.txt

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THE AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE (Originally published at Project Gutenberg by David Price) [Etext #751] aofbt10.txt or aofbt10.zip

A little queer and uncertain in general aspect. A misprint kills a sensitive author A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies Advised every literary man to have a profession. Afraid of books who have not handled them from infancy Age and neglect united gradually Agreed on certain ultimata of belief Algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak All his geese are swans All men are bores, except when we want them All men love all women All the forms of moral excellence, except truth All want to reach old age and grumble when they get it And now we two are walking the long path in peace together Another privilege of talking is to misquote Arc in the movement of a large intellect As a child, he should have tumbled about in a librar...

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