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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
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My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
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To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
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We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
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Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
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Systems die instincts remain.
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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
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The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.
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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
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The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
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Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
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The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
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