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Results of search for Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes - Page 1 of 8 Showing results 1 to 10 of 72 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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