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Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.
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 great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
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Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty.
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To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
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