The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
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.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind
than in the one they where they sprang up
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon,
but its echo lasts s great deal longer.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend
to learn unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man's mind, stretched by a new idea,
can never go back to its original dimension.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1809 - 1894)
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Justice
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