All Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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 time in which it is used.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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