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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«To live is to function. That is all there is in living.»
«I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.»
«Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden.»
«The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.»
«What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.»
«I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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distinguishable, good shape, gorilla, gorillas, Pretty Woman
«It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.»
«A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.»
«In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.»
«People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'»
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