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Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
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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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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Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
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Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
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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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Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
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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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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
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