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Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.Georgius Secundus was then alive,Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: The best servant does his work unseen.

The best servant does his work unseen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

A mind stretched by a new idea
never shrinks back to its original proportions.
~

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: America is the only place where man is full-grown!

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes: See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.