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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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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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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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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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