Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my...

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my...

Love prefers twilight to daylight

Love prefers twilight to daylight

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...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were...

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were...

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

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

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...

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

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...

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.

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

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by...

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by...

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life...

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life...

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and...

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and...