Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes & Sayings

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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

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The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

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The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract.

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

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Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

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