Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."	Friendship
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."	Government, Friends
"If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better."	Health
"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."	Justice
"The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics."	Justice
"To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all."	Knowledge
"There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn."	Success, Learning
"Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words."	Miscellaneous
"Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words."	Quotations
"Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough."	Morality
"Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!"	Music
"But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye."	Quotations
"Science is the topography of ignorance."	Science
"I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization."	God, Taxes
"Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes."	God, Taxes
"Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years."	Time
"Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!"	Time
"Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues."	Virtue
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."	Wisdom
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."	Miscellaneous
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