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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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