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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes: I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
         

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.


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I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
         



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