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"I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it." -
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Top 5 quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
Top 5 quotes from Experience
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
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