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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
  -- O W Holme...
• Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
• You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fu
  But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done...
• The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom
  And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb....
• As life is action and passion, it is required of man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....