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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.
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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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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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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
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For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
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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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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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