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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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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination no matter how utterly his reason may reject 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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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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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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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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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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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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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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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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