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All Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- [The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
- Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with…
- In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and…
- Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you…
- To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves…
- It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,…
- I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,…
- Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
- The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
- Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and…
- You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle