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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A new untruth is better than an old truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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