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Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894) American author and poet.
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Language quotesLanguage is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Studying quotesThe world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Conventionality quotesWhy can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
Ideals quotesMan is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Theory quotesEven for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Work quotesEvery calling is great when greatly pursued.
Law quotesThis is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
Excuses quotesApology is only egotism wrong side out.
Instinct quotesA goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Marriage quotesI should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
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