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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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Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
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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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To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
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Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
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