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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.. American physician poet professor lecturer and author


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Quote Left A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Quote Right
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Quote Left We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor Quote Right
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Quote Left I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Quote Right
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Quote Left Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. Quote Right
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Quote Left To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. Quote Right
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