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«And now they keep an oyster shop for mermaids down below.»
«The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
a people, marked, no doubt
«And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs»
«Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
incitement, incitements
«[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past.»
«And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound»
«Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such - the judgment of death»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
as such, reference, references, reference to, seemingly, with reference to
«A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
geographical
«A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.»
«Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
consciously, strive, unconsciously
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