Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
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There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
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