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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
Silence
Oliver Wendell 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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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
Beauty
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Experts
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Theory
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Ancestry
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
Reputation
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Insanity
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
Uncategorised
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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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Man has will, but woman has her way.
Will and Will Power
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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Ideas
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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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Opinions
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Sin
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Stupidity
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Praise
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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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Vision
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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