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Oliver Wendell Holmes served on the U S Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. He isconsidered to be one of the most influential judges ever to serve on the court.His wit and concise writing style make his opinions some of the bestwrittendocuments to come out of the Supreme Court. Holmes wrote his first book ofessays entitled The Autocrat of the BreakfastTable in 1831. While in medicaltraining Holmes was able to write another two essays detailing life as seenfrom his boarding house breakfast table. The Autocrat at the BreakfastTablewas based on fictionalized breakfast table talk and including poetry storiesjokes and songs. The essays were collected as a book of the same name in 1858and sold ten thousand copies in three days. The Professor at the BreakfastTable was the sequel released in January 1859. «
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