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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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
Novelist
Physician
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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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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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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