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Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894) American author and poet.
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Thoughts quotesLittle-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
Opinions quotesPeople talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Ideas quotesMany ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Contradiction quotesPeople who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
Commonplace quotesNothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Experts quotesDo not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Soldier quotesA good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
Truth quotesTruth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Truth quotesTruth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Truth quotesRough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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