American - Writer | August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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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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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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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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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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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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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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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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