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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. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Mind
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You
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" The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. "
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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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" People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. "
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" Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. "
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" It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. "
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" Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. "
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" Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. "
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" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "
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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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" Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. "
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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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" 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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" Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. "
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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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" To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. "
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" A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. "
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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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Home
Stay
" 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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Children
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" Apology is only egotism wrong side out. "
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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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Man
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" Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. "
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Often
Man
" Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. "
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Ideas
Grow
" A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. "
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Man
" Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. "
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Two
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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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" Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. "
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" Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. "
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" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "
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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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" A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. "
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