Posted by Malcolm on March 19, 1999 at 18:43:58 {MW/xkyMS0F4R.}:
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is licensed from Columbia University Press. Copyright � 1993 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94), U.S. writer, physician.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch. 5 (1860).