Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872)
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in The autocrat of the breakfast-table
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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