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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#common #common sense #out #pedant #sense

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cushioned #evenings #feet #home #love

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #history #library #only #should

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#knocks #other #out #real #somebody

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#deed #done #half #made #who

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#adding #always #chief #damn #end

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#better #grow #ideas #into #many

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise