Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Lying
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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
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If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
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The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
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The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.
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Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Born: March 8, 1841
- Died: March 6, 1935
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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