Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

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Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

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

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

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I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would more

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.

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To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.

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For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

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Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

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If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

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Love prefers twilight to daylight

Love prefers twilight to daylight

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It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.

It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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