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"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." -
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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."
Top 5 quotes from Age, Reading
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
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