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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes: People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
         

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.


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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
         



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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.



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

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



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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.






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