"Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.The 19th-century American author, poet, and doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. is renowned for his perceptive observations on a range of life topics. The delicate balance between friendships and honesty is one of his noteworthy concepts. True friendship, in Holmes' opinion, does not grant you the rig…