"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.“
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"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
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"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
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"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
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"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."
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