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" What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left... "
The National Review - Page 355
1861
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The 'breakfast table' series. The autocrat of the breakfast-table. The ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the...
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Selections from the Breakfast-table Series, and Pages from an Old Volume of Life

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 354 pages
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the...
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The professor at the breakfast table. Author's ed, Volume 1

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 270 pages
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the...
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The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With the Story of Iris

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1885 - 434 pages
...other men I shall not find out when I have used up my allinities. Whut a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of tl e chips that were left! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. 1010 JC and AW Hare : Guesses at Truth. What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! 1011 Holmes : The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Ch. 1. There is a certain race of men that either...
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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: The professor at the breakfast-table ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 354 pages
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left I Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the...
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The professor at the breakfast-tabel

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 382 pages
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the...
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... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: The professor at the breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 380 pages
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the...
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Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Volume 2

John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1896 - 372 pages
...criticism. He himself said some unkind things of the critics ; eg, " What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...to make critics out of the chips that were left." But, strange to say, these gentlemen did not retaliate ; perhaps they felt that they would meet too...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 119

1873 - 880 pages
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities...
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