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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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.
Cupid
Greatest
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Life
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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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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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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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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!'.
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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
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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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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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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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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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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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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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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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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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