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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 mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
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Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
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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 greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
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Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before they always did, they always will and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
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It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
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Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
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Systems die instincts remain.
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Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
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No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
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A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
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My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
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In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
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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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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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Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
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