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Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 US author & physician (1809 - 1894)
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Don΄t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

To obtain a man΄s opinion of you, make him mad.

There΄s nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Knowledge and timber shouldn΄t be much used till they are seasoned.



The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

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

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