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Oliver Wendell Holmes
b. 1841; d. 1935
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# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues — for other people.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving — we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
# · Bad (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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