Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
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Winston S. Churchill
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
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Joe Abercrombie
But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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Jane Austen
It takes a very long time to become young.
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Pablo Picasso
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
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Joe Abercrombie
More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....
