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Old Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
- Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
- To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow
- Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
- Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in…
- Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
- There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
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