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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us. - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

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When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
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Man has his will - but woman has her way.
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Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
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Don't be consistent but be simply true.
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Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.
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Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery.
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Life is a great bundle of little things.
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