Famous Quotes / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water."
| Character | Common | Commonplace | Detestable |
| Draught | Essentially | Fair | Flavor |
| Genius | Glorious | Good | Grand |
| Mediocrity | Neutrality | Person | Rinsings |
| Spoil | Spoils | Unpretending | Unwashed |
| Water | Weak | Wineglass |