The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."" - Copy to Clipboard
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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."
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."