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• Run, if you like, but try to keep your breath; Work like a man, but don't be worked to death.
  -- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr....
• Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Music-Grinde...
• People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i...
• The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye.
  The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract....
• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• No generalization is worth a damn...including this one. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
• To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -- Oliver Wendell Holme