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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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
Physician Writer
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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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.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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