| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 28776 |
| QUOTATION: | Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both feeling and looking queer.
In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), U.S. physician, writer. The Deacon’s Masterpiece (l. 73–77). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Holmes, Sr. Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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