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Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.