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| Even in common people, conceit has the virtue of making them cheerful; the man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severally unequalled, is almost sure to be a good-humored person, though liable to be tedious at times. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |  |
| Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still! | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,-- give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| Now habit is a labor-saving invention which enables a man to get along with less fuel,--that is all; for fuel is force . . . | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
| You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your OPINION really want your PRAISE, and will be contented with nothing less. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
