"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.“
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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
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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 do tact and courtesy become."
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"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
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"Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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