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A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
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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I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
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Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
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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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Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
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