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Arzt, Professor für Anatomie, Schriftsteller, "Der Tisch-Despot" (USA, 1809 - 1894).

Oliver Wendell Holmes · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Oliver Wendell Holmes wäre heute 214 Jahre, 8 Monate, 4 Tage oder 78.410 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.08.1809
Gestorben am 07.10.1894
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• And, when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

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• At the present time in this country there is more danger that criminals will escape justice than that they will be subjected to tyranny.

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• Blank cheques of intellectual bankruptcy.

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• Depart, - be off, - excede, - evade, - erump!

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• Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary does tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.

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• Every year we have to wager our salvation on some prophecy based on imperfect knowledge.

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• Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

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• Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

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• Freedom of speech does not give a person the right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theater.

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• Fresh air and innocence are good if you don't take too much of them - but I always remember that most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

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• Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

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• His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes. And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.

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• How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

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• I credit my youhtfulness at 80 to the fact of a cheerful disposition and contentment in every period of my life with what I was.

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• I do not pin my dreams for the future to my country of even to my race. I think it probable that civilization somehow will last as long as I care to look ahead.

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• I have always sought to guide the future - but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

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• I have no doubt that when the power of either capital or labor is extended in such a way as to attack the life of the community, those who seek their private interests at such cost are public enemies and should be dealt with as such.

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• I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

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• If you mean to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

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• It is a very curious fact that, with all our boasted free and equal superiority over the communities of the Old World, our people have the most enormous appetite for Old World titles of distinction.

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