Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Read The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table at Project Gutenberg

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Power of ideas Ideas Personal growth

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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English

Time

1831 1830s 19th century

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Poet Writer

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United States

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table." The New England Magazine, Nov. 1831 - Feb. 1832.

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