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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.
Success
James P. Hogan

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.
Laughter
Robert Holden

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Success
Billie Holiday

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Responsibility
Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
Patience
Josiah Gilbert Holland

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Action
Marjorie Holmes

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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
Conversation
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Controversy
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Fame
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Life and Living
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Faith
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
Knowledge
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Love
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Commonplace
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Books - Reading
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speech
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Democracy
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Doubt
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
Rules
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
Biography
Richard Holmes

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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Idleness
Sherlock Holmes

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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Law and Lawyers
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun