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• I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
  o reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor....
• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
  o reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor....
• Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with the necessities. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
  -- Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas -- v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 1927...
• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- To an Insec...