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Misattributed quotes — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

1841–1935 United States

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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

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Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the closer it contracts.

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

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

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Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.

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Keep government poor and remain free.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table" in The Atlantic Monthly Vol. 4 (1859), p. 505.

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