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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

(1841–1935) Jurist

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr was a jurist.

Quick Facts About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Born: March 8, 1841
Died: March 6, 1935
Profession: Jurist

About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

[Wikidata] American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932... | [Wikipedia] Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions – part

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There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

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Education

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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

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Beauty

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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or…

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Eighty

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War? War is an organized bore.

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Bores

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What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful…

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Cheerful

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself,…

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Deny

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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

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Corny

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The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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Contrary

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The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of…

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Acceptance

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Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is…

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Antagonist

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If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

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Ifs

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Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

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Armed forces

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We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is…

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Capital punishment

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A person of genius should marry a person of character.

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Character

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It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy…

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Collars

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There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

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Beauty

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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to…

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Believe

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Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs…

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Belief

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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

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Character

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With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain…

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About yourself

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The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

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Belief

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

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Apology

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We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

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Certainty

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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him…

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Age

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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best…

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Advice

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