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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.
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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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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
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The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
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Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
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Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.
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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
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For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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