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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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.
Fame
Usually
Individual
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Else
Something
Thinking
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Rarely
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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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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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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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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