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Great Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
- The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the…
- Life is a great bundle of little things.
- The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things
- The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction…
- The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
- The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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