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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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Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.
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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
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