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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3522/">Quotes by <em>Holmes, Oliver Wendell</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families."

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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"Age, like distance lends a double charm."

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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 person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."

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"The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land."

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

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"What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies."

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"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."

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"What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds."

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