A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
(The Professor at the Breakfast Table, 1859)

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Professor at the Breakfast Table, 1859)

It is by little things that we know ourselves.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858)

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Quoted in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1863)

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