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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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