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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes: Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
         

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.


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This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

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My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.



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




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The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.



Certitude is not the test of certainty.

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