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Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
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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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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As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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