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Things Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
- Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and…
- We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are…
- There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
- Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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