What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?

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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)

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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

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