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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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
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Men
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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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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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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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