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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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[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
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My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
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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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I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
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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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Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.
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