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• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i...
• Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i...