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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

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"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

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"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say 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."
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"A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure."
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"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."
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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
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