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One Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
- 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…
- But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise…
- I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
- 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…
- Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and…
- 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,…
- To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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