• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
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1. first-rate
2. furniture
3. chamber
4. common
5. ground
6. floor

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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