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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about 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
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
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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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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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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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