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Quotations by author » Oliver Wendell Holmes
American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894
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Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
ChildrenTruth
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust
MoneyTrust
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
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Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and good women practice
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
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Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
Society
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Talking is one of the fine arts - the noblest, the most important, the most difficult - and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note
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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books
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