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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes · Truth

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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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Hope

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Age

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Imagination