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• FAme usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
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• As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. -- Oliver Wendell Holme