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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes: On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
         

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.


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