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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
8/1809-10/1894 (Age at death: 85)

An American physician, writer, poet, and the father of US Supreme Court Justice.

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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind - and all the worse for the fishes.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature. A calm, clear mind, not subject to the spasms and crises which are so often met with in creative or intensely perceptive natures, is the best basis for love or friendship. --Observe, I am talking about minds. I won't say, the more intellect, the less capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the understanding and reason;-- but on the other hand, that the ...
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