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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1831
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1831
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Dover Publications, 2015.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table." The New England Magazine. Boston: Joseph T. Buckingham, Nov. 1831 and Feb. 1832.

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