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"I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it." -
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Top 5 quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."
Top 5 quotes from Experience
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."
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