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The Character Of Every Act Depends On The Circumstances In Which It Is Done.
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The character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it is
done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect
a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes jr.
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.
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What is true is what I can't help believing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.