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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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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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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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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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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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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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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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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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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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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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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