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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

Brief author info: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist.

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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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