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I like children I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
Medical Writer
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Physician
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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