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Old Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
- The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
- We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
- A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
- Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the…
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