A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.