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Say Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a…
- I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a…
- The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
- Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us…
- Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more…
- If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble;…
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