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Only Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first…
- Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
- Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
- What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while…
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
- Beauty is only skin deep... but dont tell an ugly person that
- There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
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