John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes. (1809–1894) (continued) |
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| Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i. |
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| Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. ii. |
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| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi. |
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| There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian, 1 in one of his flashing moments: “Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.” To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: 2 “Good Americans when they die go to Paris.” |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi. |
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| Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n’t pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi. |
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| The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi. |
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| The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi. |
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| Knowledge and timber should n’t be much used till they are seasoned. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi. |
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| The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability. |
| The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. viii. |
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| To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. |
| On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1899). |
| Note 1. John Lothrop Motley. Said Scopas of Thessaly, “We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.”—Plutarch: On the Love of Wealth. [back] |
| Note 2. Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884). [back] |