#ear

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#am #fifteen #i #i am #old

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

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