To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself acceptedin the competition of the market. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
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