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New Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general…
- A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
- Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
- A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
- A new untruth is better than an old truth.
- Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.
- Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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