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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes: There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
         

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.


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