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Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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about 33
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
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THE AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE (Originally published at Project Gutenberg by David Price) [Etext #751] aofbt10.txt or aofbt10.zip

A little queer and uncertain in general aspect. A misprint kills a sensitive author A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies Advised every literary man to have a profession. Afraid of books who have not handled them from infancy Age and neglect united gradually Agreed on certain ultimata of belief Algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak All his geese are swans All men are bores, except when we want them All men love all women All the forms of moral excellence, except truth All want to reach old age and grumble when they get it And now we two are walking the long path in peace together Another privilege of talking is to misquote Arc in the movement of a large intellect As a child, he should have tumbled about in a library As I understand truth As to clever people's hating each other Asked Solon what made him dare to be so obstinate Assume a standard of judgment in our own minds At the mercy of every superior mind Audacious self-esteem, with good ground for it Automatic and involuntary actions of the mind Babbage's calculating machine Be very careful to whom you trust one of these keys Beautiful effects from wit,--all the prismatic colors Been in the same precise circumstances before Behave like men and gentlemen about it, if you know how. Bells which small trades-people connect with their shop-doors Better too few words, from the woman we love Bill which will render pockets a superfluity in your next suit Blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy Bowing and nodding over the music Brain often runs away with the heart's best blood Brilliant flashes--of silence!

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