• What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.

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

1. ground-glass
2. gas-lamp
3. dazzled
4. solace
5. shade
6. bring

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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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