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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 2020
AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935)
QUOTATION: A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
ATTRIBUTION: Justice OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Towne v. Eisner, 245 U.S. 425 (1918).
SUBJECTS: Words