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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes · Wisdom

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Art

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Music

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Nature

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Happiness