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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. "

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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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" 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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" Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. "

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" To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. "

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" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

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

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

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" A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. "

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

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

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" Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. "

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" I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. "

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