| Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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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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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Logic is logic. That's all I say. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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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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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. |
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- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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