Quote#Wisdom
An aristocrat in morals as in mind
Quote byOwen Wister · 1860–1938
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930), p. 130..
English (original)
An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
— Owen Wister
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