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“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes · Men

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Faith

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Society

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.

Men

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Death