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Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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 necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
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