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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
“The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.”
“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”
“A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.”
“Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.”
“Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.”
“Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.”
“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”
“Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.”
“The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.”
“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”