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" Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

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" Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. "

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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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" What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! "

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" A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. "

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" Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. "

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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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" 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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" 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? "

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" The Amen of nature is always a flower. "

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" But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. "

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" Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. "

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" Have the courage to act instead of react. "

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" A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. "

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

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