266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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Why 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?
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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