• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. circumstances
2. unchanged
3. according
4. greatly
5. content
6. which

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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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