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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
Medical Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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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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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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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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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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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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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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