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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

«To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.»
«The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn»
«I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!»
«People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.»
«The world's great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men.»
«Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.»
«We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!»
«Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered»
«If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.»
«Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.»

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