Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.	Accuracy
2	The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.	Achievement
3	I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.	Action
4	Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.	Adversity
5	Age, like distance lends a double charm.	Aging
6	Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.	Aging
7	A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.	Aging
8	We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us.	Ancestor
9	Apology is only egotism wrong side out.	Apology
10	Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten the first thing a man's companion knows of his short-comings, is from his apology.	Apology

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