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" A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

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" The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. "

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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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" Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. "

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" I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. "

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

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" Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'. "

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" Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true. "

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" It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. "

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" A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! "

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" The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. "

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

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" Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. "

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" The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. "

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" The Amen of nature is always a flower. "

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" A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. "

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" Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. "

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" Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. "

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" Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. "

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