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Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn’t pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on comedy

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 6

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