All Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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