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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
Brief author info: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist.
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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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