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Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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