Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

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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.

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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There’s nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

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

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To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad.

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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