Selections from the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Arr. Under the Days of the Year, & Accompanied by Memoranda of Anniversaries of Noted Events & of the Birth Or Death of Famous Men & WomenHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1889 - 50 pages |
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... person , the more necessary do tact and cour- tesy become . Except in cases of necessity , which are rare , leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his enemies ; they are ready enough to tell them . Good breeding never forgets ...
... person , the more necessary do tact and cour- tesy become . Except in cases of necessity , which are rare , leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his enemies ; they are ready enough to tell them . Good breeding never forgets ...
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... person plays much without striking a false note sometimes . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . A sick man that gets talking about himself , a woman that gets talking about her baby , and an author that begins reading out of his ...
... person plays much without striking a false note sometimes . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . A sick man that gets talking about himself , a woman that gets talking about her baby , and an author that begins reading out of his ...
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... person a little better than his word , a little more liberal than his promise , a little more than borne out in his statement by his facts , a little larger in deed than in speech , you recognize a kind of eloquence in that person's ...
... person a little better than his word , a little more liberal than his promise , a little more than borne out in his statement by his facts , a little larger in deed than in speech , you recognize a kind of eloquence in that person's ...
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... person himself ; the other is the Recording Angel . The autobiog- rapher cannot be trusted to tell the whole truth , though he may tell nothing but the truth , and the Recording Angel never lets his book go out of his own hands . THE ...
... person himself ; the other is the Recording Angel . The autobiog- rapher cannot be trusted to tell the whole truth , though he may tell nothing but the truth , and the Recording Angel never lets his book go out of his own hands . THE ...
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... persons , and public audiences of inferior collective intelligence , have this in common : the least thing draws off their minds , when you are speaking to them . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 10. Rouget de Lisle , 1760 . His ...
... persons , and public audiences of inferior collective intelligence , have this in common : the least thing draws off their minds , when you are speaking to them . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 10. Rouget de Lisle , 1760 . His ...
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Page 46 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 43 - But little-minded people's thought move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly differ from a straight line. Even if it have the third vowel as its centre, it does not soon betray it.
Page 76 - The snowdrop, bearing on her patient breast The frozen trophy torn from winter's crest; The violet, gazing on the arch of blue Till her own iris wears its deepened hue; The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould Naked and shivering with his cup of gold.