Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

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