Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man has his will – but woman has her way.

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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

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No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well — parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

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People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way’

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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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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.

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