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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Date of Birth:

08-Mar-1841

Nationality:

United States

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., son of the author, teacher and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, fought for the Union side in the American Civil War for three years. In 1864, he started attending Harvard Law School and later taught as a professor. In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Holmes to the U.S. Supreme Court. Holmes retired in 1931, at the age of 91.

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
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“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”
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“Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
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“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
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“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”
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“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”
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“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”
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“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
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“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”
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“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.”
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“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
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