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To know is not less than to feel.
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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Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
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There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
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The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.
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It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
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Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
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No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
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There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
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Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
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In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
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For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
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