American - Judge | March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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