"It is a very curious fact that, with all our boasted free and equal superiority over the communities of the Old World, our people [Americans] have the most enormous appetite for Old World titles of distinction."

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About Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and essayist associated with the Fireside Poets. He is known for poems such as Old Ironsides and for influential prose writing.

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