Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.

Oliver wendell Holmes

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1052 There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
1078 I find the great 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.
1002 Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
1051 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.
971 A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

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