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• FAme usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)...
• No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes jr.
• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holme