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History and Historians
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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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 cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
Uncategorised
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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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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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Children
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Trust
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Advertising
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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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speech
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
Achievement
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Kisses and Kissing
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Studying
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Age and Aging
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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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Love
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