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" Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Grow
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" It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. "
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" Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. "
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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. "
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" The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. "
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" Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. "
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" Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. "
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" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "
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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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" Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. "
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" Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. "
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" Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. "
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" Apology is only egotism wrong side out. "
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" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "
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" Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. "
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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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" Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. "
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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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" Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. "
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" To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. "
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" Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. "
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" The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. "
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" I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. "
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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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" 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 be 'consistent', but be simply true. "
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" A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. "
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" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. "
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