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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

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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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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."

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"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

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