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The "Breakfast-Table" series refers to a collection of essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. These essays, first published in The Atlantic Monthly starting in 1857, are known for their conversational style, wit, and learning. Holmes also published them as books, including The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858), The Professor of the Breakfast-Table (1860), and The Poet of the Breakfast-Table (1872). While Holmes was also a physician and poet, famous for "Old Ironsides," his "Breakfast-Table" essays are a significant part of his literary legacy.12

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