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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Tags: reading, books
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Over the Teacups
Tags: read, books
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Tags: science, common-sense
Science is the topography of ignorance.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Tags: science, ignorance
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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