Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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