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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
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Various permutations of this quote have been attributed to Holmes, but its was actually written by Zechariah Chafee, "Freedom of Speech in Wartime", 32 Harvard Law Review 932, 957 (1919).

 
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