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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
US author & physician [more author details]

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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.: Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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?: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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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.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1891
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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