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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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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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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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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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