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"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." -
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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."
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
Top 5 quotes from Life & Death
"A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
"I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
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