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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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Words
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crystal, crystals, greatly, in color, In Living Color, skin color, the Crystal, The Skin, transparent, unchanged, vary
«The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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Advertising
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publicity, shrink, threatened
«The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth»
«Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.»
«Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.»
«Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.»
«Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
flat, grind, in some way
«Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
chamber, common ground, first rate, floor, furniture, ground floor, piece of furniture, piece of ground, upper, uppers
«Man has will, but woman has her way.»
«My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same»
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