A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1856-11), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

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