Not Cross-Eyed<\/b><\/p>\n
The brilliant physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and his brother John represent two radically different views on the subject of flattery. Dr. Holmes loved to collect compliments, and when he was older he indulged his pastime by saying to someone who had just praised his work, <\/p>\n
\u201cI am a trifle deaf, you know. Do you mind repeating that a little louder?\u201d <\/p>\n
John, however, was unassuming and content to be in his older brother\u2019s shadow. He once said that the only compliment he ever received came when he was six. The maid was brushing his hair when she observed to his mother that little John wasn\u2019t all that cross-eyed!<\/p>\n
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Second Husband<\/b><\/p>\n
Joseph Choate, one-time U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, when asked who he would like to be if he could come back to earth again after he died, replied without an instant\u2019s hesitation: \u201cMrs. Choate\u2019s second husband.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maurice Sendak, Author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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