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+Title: Widger's Quotations from the Works of Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
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+WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
+WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS:
+
+The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table ........ [Etext #751]  aofbt10.txt
+The Professor at the Breakfast Table ....... [Etext #2665] prabt10.txt
+The Poet at the Breakfast Table ............ [Etext #2666] ptabt10.txt
+Over the Teacups ........................... [Etext #2689] teacp10.txt
+Elsie Venner ............................... [Etext #2696] elsie10.txt
+The Guardian Angel ......................... [Etext #2697] angel10.txt
+A Mortal Antipathy ......................... [Etext #2698] antip10.txt
+Passages from an Old Volume of Life ........ [Etext #2706] pages10.txt
+Medical Essays ............................. [Etext #2700] medic10.txt
+The Entire Gutenberg Files of Holmes ....... [Etext #3252] ohent10.txt
+
+
+
+
+
+                              EDITOR'S NOTE
+
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+may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this
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+D.W.
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+
+
+                           WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+
+
+THE AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
+(Originally published at Project Gutenberg by David Price)
+[Etext #751] aofbt10.txt or aofbt10.zip
+
+A little queer and uncertain in general aspect.
+A misprint kills a sensitive author
+A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer
+Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies
+Advised every literary man to have a profession.
+Afraid of books who have not handled them from infancy
+Age and neglect united gradually
+Agreed on certain ultimata of belief
+Algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak
+All his geese are swans
+All men are bores, except when we want them
+All men love all women
+All the forms of moral excellence, except truth
+All want to reach old age and grumble when they get it
+And now we two are walking the long path in peace together
+Another privilege of talking is to misquote
+Arc in the movement of a large intellect
+As a child, he should have tumbled about in a library
+As I understand truth
+As to clever people's hating each other
+Asked Solon what made him dare to be so obstinate
+Assume a standard of judgment in our own minds
+At the mercy of every superior mind
+Audacious self-esteem, with good ground for it
+Automatic and involuntary actions of the mind
+Babbage's calculating machine
+Be very careful to whom you trust one of these keys
+Beautiful effects from wit,--all the prismatic colors
+Been in the same precise circumstances before
+Behave like men and gentlemen about it, if you know how.
+Bells which small trades-people connect with their shop-doors
+Better too few words, from the woman we love
+Bill which will render pockets a superfluity in your next suit
+Blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy
+Bowing and nodding over the music
+Brain often runs away with the heart's best blood
+Brilliant flashes--of silence!
+Brute beasts of the intellectual domain
+Bury in it beliefs, doubts, dreams, hopes, and terrors
+But it was in talking of Life that we came most nearly together
+But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
+C'est le DERNIER pas qui co–te
+Called an old man for the first time
+Cel… va sans dire
+Character is distinctly shown at the age of  or  months.
+Cigar
+Clairvoyance which sees into things without opening them
+Code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk
+Comfort is essential to enjoyment
+Commerce is just putting his granite foot upon them
+Common sense was good enough for him
+Common sense, as you understand it.
+Compare the racer with the trotter
+Conceit has the virtue of making them cheerful
+Conceit is just a natural thing to human minds
+Conclusion that he or she is really dull
+Consciousness of carrying a "settler" in the form of a fact
+Controversy
+Conversation which is suggestive rather than argumentative
+Conversational blank checks or counters
+Conversational bully
+Conversational fungi spring up most luxuriantly
+Conversational soprano
+Creative action is not voluntary at all
+Crippled souls
+Crow with a king-bird after him
+Cut your climate to your constitution
+Dangerous subjects
+Demand for intellectual labor is so enormous
+Did I believe in love at first sight?
+Differ on the fundamental principles
+Dishwater from the washings of English dandyism
+Disputing about remainders and fractions
+Do you ever wonder why poets talk so much about flowers?
+Do you know how important good jockeying is to authors?
+Don't believe any man ever talked like that in this world
+Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man
+Don't make your moral staple consist of the negative virtues
+Doomed to the pangs of an undeceived self-estimate
+Dulness is not commonly a game fish
+Easier to dispute it than to disprove it
+Easier to say this than to prove it
+Elysian abandonment of a huge recumbent chair.
+Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door
+Extra talent does sometimes make people jealous
+Facts always yield the place of honor, in conversation
+Few, if any, were ruined by drinking
+Flash terms for words which truly characterize their objects.
+Fortune had left her, sorrow had baptized her
+Fortune is the measure of intelligence
+Friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things
+Gambling with dice or stocks
+Gambling, on the great scale, is not republican
+Generally ruined before they became drunkards
+Genius in an essentially common person is detestable
+Gift of seeing themselves in the true light
+Give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light
+Give us the luxuries of life
+Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris
+Good feeling helps society to make liars of most of us
+Good for nothing until they have been long kept and used
+Got his hand up, as a pointer lifts his forefoot
+Governed, not by, but according to laws
+Grave without a stone where nothing but a man is buried
+Great silent-moving misery puts a new stamp on us
+Grow old early, if you would be old long
+Grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love.
+Habit is a labor-saving invention
+Hard it is for some people to get out of a room
+He that has once done you a kindness
+He who is carried by horses must deal with rogues
+Height of art to conceal art
+Her breathing was somewhat hurried and high, or thoracic
+Here lies buried the soul of the licentiate Pedro Garcias
+Hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer
+Hold their outspread hands over your head
+Holes in all her pockets
+Hoped he did deserve a little abuse occasionally
+Hopelessly dull discourse acts inductively
+How long will school-keeping take to kill you?
+Hung with moss, looking like bearded Druids
+Hydrostatic paradox of controversy
+I allow no "facts " at this table
+I always believed in life rather than in books
+I always break down when folks cry in my face
+I am my own son, as it seems to me
+I had not thought love was ever meant for me.
+I hate books
+I have lived by the sea-shore and by the mountains
+I have taken all knowledge to be my province
+I love horses
+I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds
+I replied with my usual forbearance
+I show my thought, another his
+I tell my secrets too easily when I am downhearted.
+I think I have not been attacked enough for it
+If I thought I should ever see the Alps!
+If so and so, we should have been this or that
+If they have run as well as they knew how!
+Il faut ne pas BRUTALISER la machine
+In what direction we are moving
+Incipit Allegoria Senectutis.
+Infinite ocean of similitudes and analogies
+Insanity
+Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
+Intellectual companions can be found easily
+Is this the mighty occan?--is this all?
+It is by little things that we know ourselves
+It is pleasant to be foolish at the right time
+Judge men's minds by comparing with mine
+Keep his wit in the background
+Key to this side-door
+Knowledge and timber only useful when seasoned
+La main de fer sous le gant de velours
+Laid the egg of the Reformation which Luther hatched
+Laughs at times at the grand airs "Science" puts on
+Law of the road with regard to handsome faces
+Leading a string of my mind's daughters to market
+Leap at a single bound into celebrity
+Learn anything twice as easily as in my earlier days
+Leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his enemies
+Lecturer is public property
+Let us cry!
+Liability of all men to be elected to public office
+Life is maintained by the respiration of oxygen and of sentiment
+Life would be nothing without paper-credit
+Like taking the cat in your lap after holding a squirrel
+Listen to what others say about subjects you have studied
+Little great man
+Little muscle which knows its importance
+Little narrow streaks of specialized knowledge
+Live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made
+Living in a narrow world of dry habits
+Logic
+Logicians carry the surveyor's chain over the track
+Long illness is the real vampyrism
+Look through the silvered rings of the arcus senilis!
+Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men
+Love must be either rich or rosy
+Love-capacity is a congenital endowment
+Lying is unprofitable
+Made up your mind to do when you ask them for advice
+Man is father to the boy that was
+Man of family
+Man who means to be honest for a literary pickpocket
+Man's and a woman's dusting a library
+Man's first life-story shall clean him out, so to speak
+Mathematical fact
+May doubt everything to-day if I will only do it civilly
+Meaningless blushing
+Mechanical invention had exhausted itself
+Memory is a net
+Men are fools, cowards, and liars all at once
+Men grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay
+Men of facts wait their turn in grim silence
+Men that it weakens one to talk with an hour
+Men that know everything except how to make a living
+Men who have found new occupations when growing old
+Might have hired an EARTHQUAKE for less money!
+Moralist and occasional sermonizer
+Most of our common, working beliefs are probabilities
+Moved as if all her articulations were elbow-joints
+Much ashamed of some people for retaining their reason
+Must be weaned from his late suppers now
+Must not read such a string of verses too literally
+Must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it
+Napoleon's test
+Nature dresses and undresses them
+Nature, who always has her pockets full of seeds
+Nearest approach to flying that man has ever made
+Neither make too much of flaws or overstatements
+Never forget where they have put their money
+No fresh truth ever gets into a book
+No man knows his own voice
+Nobody is so old he doesn't think he can live a year
+Nutritious diet of active sympathetic benevolence
+Oblivion as residuary legatee
+Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library
+Odious trick of speech or manners must be got rid of.
+Oh, so patient she is, this imperturbable Nature!
+Old Age
+Old age appear as a series of personal insults and indignities
+Old jokes are dynamometers of mental tension
+One can generally tell these wholesale thieves easily enough
+One doesn't like to be cruel,--and yet one hates to lie
+One that goes in a nurse may come out an angel
+One very sad thing in old friendships
+Open patches where the sun gets in and goes to sleep
+Oracle
+Original, though you have uttered it a hundred times
+Ought to produce insanity in every well-regulated mind
+Our brains are seventy-year clocks
+Overrate their own flesh and blood
+Painted there by reflection from our faces
+Passion never laughs
+People in the green stage of millionism
+People that make puns are like wanton boys
+Person is really full of information, and does not abuse it
+Personal incidents that call up single sharp pictures
+Physical necessity to talk out what is in the mind
+Plagiarism
+Pluck survives stamina
+Poem must be kept and used, like a meersehaum, or a violin
+Poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences
+Poetry, instead of making one other heart happy
+Poor creature that does not often repeat himself
+Poverty is evidence of limited capacity
+Power of human beings is a very strictly limited agency
+Power of music
+Pride, in the sense of contemning others
+Probabilities
+Project a principle full in the face of obvious fact!
+Provincial conceit, which some of us must plead guilty to.
+Pun is primƒ facie an insult
+Put coppers on the railroad-tracks
+Qu'est ce qu'il a fait?  What has he done?
+Racing horses are essentially gambling implements
+Rapidity with which ideas grow old in our memories
+Rather longer than usual dressing that morning
+Rather meet three of the scowlers than one of the smilers.
+Regained my freedom with a sigh
+Religious mental disturbances
+Remarkably intelligent audience
+Remarks like so many postage-stamps
+Returning thanks after a dinner of many courses
+Ribbon which has strangled so many false pretensions
+Sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow
+Saddle-leather is in some respects even preferable
+Saturation-point of each mind differs from that of every other
+Scientific certainty has no spring in it
+Scientific knowledge
+Second story projecting
+See if the ripe fruit were better or worse
+Self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces
+Self-made men?
+Self-unconsciousness of genius
+Sense of SMELL
+"Settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver
+Several false premises
+Shake the same bough again
+She who nips off the end of a brittle courtesy
+SIN has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all
+Six persons engaged in every dialogue between two
+Small potatoes always get to the bottom.
+Smiling at present follies
+So much must be pardoned to humanity
+So much woman in it,--muliebrity, as well as femineity
+Society is a strong solution of books
+Society of Mutual Admiration
+Sold his sensibilities
+Somebody had been calling him an old man
+Something better than flowers; it is a seed-capsule
+Something she is ashamed of, or ought to be.
+Somewhere,-- somewhere,--love is in store for them
+Stages of life
+Stupidity often saves a man from going mad
+Style is the man
+Sudden conviction that I had seen it somewhere
+Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind
+Talkers who have what may be called jerky minds
+Talking is like playing on the harp
+Talking is one of the fine arts
+Talking shapes our thoughts for us
+Talking with a dull friend affords great relief
+Tears that we weep inwardly with unchanging features
+Temptation of money and fame is too great for young people
+Tepid and unstimulating expression of enthusiasm
+Terrible smile
+Thanklessness of critical honesty
+That great procession of the UNLOVED
+The Amen! of Nature is always a flower
+The house is quite as much the body we live in
+The race that shortens its weapons lengthens its boundaries
+The schoolmistress had tried life, too
+The way to argue down a vice is not to tell lies about it
+The year eighteen hundred and ever-so-few
+Their business is not a matter of sympathy, but of intellect
+There is a higher law in grammar, not to be put down
+There is almost always at least one key to this side-door
+There is no elasticity in a mathematical fact
+Think of the griefs that die unspoken!
+Think only in single file front this day forward
+Third vowel as its center
+This is one of those cases in which the style is the man
+This is the shortest way,--she said
+Those who ask your opinion really want your praise
+Time is a fact
+To pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten
+To trifle with the vocabulary
+Too late!---- "It might have been."----Amen!
+Travellers change their guineas, but not their characters
+Triumph of the ciphering hand-organ
+True state of creative genius is allied to reverie, or dreaming
+Truth must roll, or nobody can do anything with it
+Truth's  sharp corners get terribly rounded
+Truths a man carries about with him are his tools
+Turn over any old falsehood
+Unadorned and in plain calico
+Undertakers
+Unpacks and unfolds incidental illustrations
+Unpretending mediocrity is good
+Virtually old when it first makes its appearance
+Virtue passed through the hem of their parchment
+Virtues of a sporting man
+Vulgarism of language
+Wait awhile!
+Walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization
+Want of ideas, want of words, want of manners
+We always compare ourselves with our contemporaries.
+We are all theological students
+We carry happiness into our condition
+We die out of houses, just as we die out of our bodies
+We don't read what we don't like
+We never tell our secrets to people that pump for them.
+Wedded, faded away, threw themselves away
+Wedding-ring conveys a right to a key to this side-door
+Weeded their circle pretty well of these unfortunates
+What a satire, by the way, is that machine
+What are the great faults of conversation?
+Whether anything can be conscious of its own flavor??
+Whether gifted with the accident of beauty or not
+While she is silent, Nature is working for her
+Who is in advance of it or even with it
+Wholesale professional dealers in misfortune
+Why authors and actors are ashamed of being funny?
+Why did I not ask? you will say
+Will you take the long path with me?
+Winning-post a slab of white or gray stone
+Wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
+Wonder how my great trees are coming on this summer.
+World calls him hard names, probably
+World has a million roosts for a man, but only one nest.
+Yes, I am a man, like another
+Youth and age--something in the soul
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+THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
+[Etext #2665] prabt10.txt or prabt10.zip
+
+Anonymous defamation, putting lies into people's mouths
+Answer him not
+Apologizing --A very desperate habit
+Apology is only egotism wrong side out
+Celibacy of the clergy
+Chose a plain one, that keeps good time, and that is all
+Consolations of religion
+Conversational non-combatants
+Didn't know Truth was such an invalid
+Essence of genius is truthfulness, contact with realities
+Faith dislikes being meddled with
+Fear of open discussion implies feebleness
+Genius
+Good many coarse people in both callings
+Happy to agree with all their beliefs, if that were possible
+Hardness in surgeons, just as there is in theologians
+Hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors
+Humility is the first of the virtues--for other people
+I can't afford to pay quite so much as that even for peace
+I will not die with a lie rattling in my throat
+Inclination of two persons with a strong affinity
+Intellectual non-combatant
+It is so hard to prove a negative
+Let him be patient with an opinion he does not accept
+Life becomes to them as death and death as life
+List of things that everybody says and nobody thinks
+List of things that everybody thinks and nobobody says
+Lurch to quackery, owing to their very loose way of evidence
+Meddling with things that can take care of themselves
+Most persons have died before they expire
+No company of craftsmen that did not need sharp looking after
+Nobody talks much that does n't say unwise things
+Not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth
+Notion of private property in truth
+Only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas
+Opinions
+Out of plumb when they sit side by side
+Overestimate of our special individuality
+Pathological piety
+Perpetual insult to mediocrity
+Plenty of praying rogues and swearing saints in the world
+Presumption in favor of any particular belief
+Pseudo-science
+Question everything
+Saying one thing about it and believing another
+Spiritualism
+Surfeits of pathological piety
+Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for crops of thought
+Talked as if I believed what I said
+The dead-living
+Took it for granted that he and his crowd were right
+Torturing of dying people
+Truth is tough.  It will not break, like a bubble
+Truth never goeth without a scratcht face
+Way the pseudo-sciences go to work
+Wholesale moral arrangements are so different from retail
+Whoso offers me any article of belief for my signature
+Wider the intellect, the larger and simpler the expressions
+Wisdom is the abstract of the past
+Woman fascinates a man quite as often by what she overlooks
+Would you stand still in fly-time, or would you give a kick
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+THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
+[Etext #2666] ptabt10.txt or ptabt10.zip
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+Age magnifies and aggravates persons out of due proportion
+Allowed a set of monks to pull their hoods over our eyes
+Associates facts by their accidental cohesion
+Authority
+Dogmatists
+Don't like the word tolerant
+Earnest
+Emptied me of all my voluntary laughter
+Enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at
+Enthusiast
+Epicure in words
+Ever-ending and ever-beginning stories
+Fore-stick and the back-log of ancient days
+How does she go to work to help you?  -- Why, she listens
+I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts
+If he knows anything, knows how little he knows
+Intellectual myopia
+Inventory of my faculties as calmly as if I were an appraiser
+It is a woman's business to please
+Knowledge--it excites prejudices to call it science
+Life is a fatal complaint
+Minds tossing on the unquiet waves of doubt
+More science he has the worse for his patient
+Most of us hope and many of us believe we shall
+Must not roughly smash other people's idols
+Never saw the man that couldn't teach me something
+Pedantry, triviality, and the kind of partial blindness
+Poetry is not an article of prime necessity, and potatoes are
+Poets who never write verses
+Privilege of wisdom to listen
+Province of knowledge to speak
+Question these charming old people before it is too late
+Rather too anxious that I should be comfortable
+Rounded back, convex with years of stooping over his minute work
+Said something which another had often felt but never said
+Satisfaction to the curious practitioner
+Science without common sense
+Scientific specialization
+"Sentimentality," which is sentiment overdone
+She always laughs and cries in the right places
+Some people that think everything pitiable is so funny
+Takes very little to spoil everything for writer, talker, lover
+There is nothing I do not question
+Two sides to everybody, as there are to that piece of money
+Vacuous countenances
+Virtues of her deceased spouse
+We never need fear that he will undervalue himself
+What have I to do with time, but to fill it up with labor?
+What you hate in him is chiefly misfortune
+Wholesale thinker who handles knowledge by the cargo
+Young surgeon, old physician
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+OVER THE TEACUPS
+[Etext #2689] teacp10.txt or teacp10.zip
+
+Acquiescence is the best of palliations
+All of our brains squint more or less
+Alternations of overvaluation and undervaluation of ourselves
+At sixty we come "within range of the rifle-pits
+Blessed are those who have said our good things for us
+Cavil on the ninth part of a hair
+Cerebral strabismus
+Childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did
+Consciousness is covered by layers of habitual thoughts
+Content to remain more or less ignorant of many things
+Controversialists
+Cracked Teacup
+Cultivated symptoms as other people cultivate roses
+Curve of health
+Difference in the extreme limits of life--little
+Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist
+Do wish she would get well--or something
+Endure philosophically what we cannot help
+Enormous appetite for Old World titles of distinction
+Envy not the old man the tranquillity of his existence
+Every age has to shape the Divine image it worships over again
+General practitioner submits to a servitude
+Great privilege of old age was the getting rid of responsibility
+Habits are the crutches of old age
+He did not know so much about old age then as he does now
+Hoard your life as a miser hoards his money
+Homo unius libri--the man of one book
+Hypocrisy of kind-hearted people
+I dressed his wound, and God cured him
+I told you so
+Intellectual Over-Feeding and its consequence, Mental Dyspepsia
+It is time to be old,  To take in sail
+Know enough of a wide range of subjects
+Know something about everything, and everything about something
+Less you think about your health the better
+Man who knows too much about one particular subject
+Nature's kindly anodyne
+Never contradict a man with a squinting brain
+Never to countenance a wrong because others did
+No patience with any form of deceit or duplicity
+Old Men's Tears
+Old people have a right to be epicures, if they can afford it
+Old women of both sexes
+Outlived their usefulness
+Persons with a strong instinctive tendency to contradiction
+Pitying kindness
+Pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought in range
+Presumptions
+Rapture of self-admiration
+Reached and passed the natural limit of serviceable years
+Remember past happiness in the hour of misery
+Sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living
+Squinting brains
+Sufficient, not too much exercise
+Tobacco, a soothing drug
+Trespasser on the domain belonging to another generation
+Truth is lost in its own excess
+Unconscious plagiarism
+Vieille fille fait jeune mariee
+Voice that makes friends of everybody
+Wants nothing but a bald spot and a wife
+We must drop much of our foliage before winter is upon us
+Weak-eyed fountain feebly weeping over its own insignificance
+When one watches for symptoms, every organ in the body is ready
+When we think we are thinking
+With an effort that we admit a new author into the inner circle
+World was a garden to me then; it is a churchyard now
+Writer telling them something they have long known or felt
+Young Doctor, waiting for his bald spot to come
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+ELSIE VENNER
+[Etext #2696] elsie10.txt or elsie10.zip
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+All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology
+Appetite should be at war with no other purse than his own
+Attacks of spiritual neuralgia
+Bare hook and a coarse line are all that is needed
+Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself
+Beliefs must be lived in for a good while
+Confession of weakness which does not wish to be strong
+Conscience itself requires a conscience
+Constituency of mediocrities of which the world is made up
+Cowardice may call for our most lenient judgment
+Criticise other people's modes of dealing with their children
+Despair itself would have been like an anodyne
+Don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side
+Educational factory
+Fall silent and think they are thinking
+Habits, which take the place of self-determination
+Happiest of souls, if lethargy is bliss
+He almost lived in his library
+I dressed his wound and God healed him
+Judged the hearts of others by his own
+Leverage is everything
+Makes men imperious to sit a horse
+Matrimonial alliance, and a family of half a dozen children
+Means at least as much as he says
+Measles  Mumps  And Sin,--that's always catching
+Millstone round their necks, taking it for a life-preserver?
+Mistake spiritual selfishness for sanctity
+Not quite dead enough to bury
+Old Doctor did not believe in medicine
+One angry man is as good as another
+One of her "I think it's sos" is worth the Bible-oath
+Outside observers see results; parents see processes
+Passive endurance is the hardest trial
+Priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of
+Shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy
+Slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition
+So long as a woman can talk, there is nothing she cannot bear
+Some people think that truth and gold are always to be washed for
+Swap him for a `yallah dog,'--and then shoot the dog
+Talked cautiously, feeling his way for sympathy
+Taste of everything he carried in his saddlebags
+Thin film of some emotional non-conductor between them
+Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane
+Tremulous movement of the muscles, which was worse than silence
+We forget that weakness is not in itself a sin
+We must have headway on, or there will be no piloting her
+What a miserable thing it is to be poor
+Why did n't I warn him about love and all that nonsense?
+Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow
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+THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
+[Etext #2697] angel10.txt or angel10.zip
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+Alas!  her simple words were true,--he had grown away from her
+Been afraid since to like almost anything
+Cold shower-bath the world furnishes gratis
+Conflicting advice of all manner of officious friends
+Don't be in a hurry to choose your friends
+Dreaded mingling with the brawlers of the market-place
+Easy-crying widows take new husbands soonest
+Getting married is jumping overboard
+Grief must be fed with thought, or starve to death
+Her only fault was that she had not grown with him
+I am old and incombustible enough to be trusted
+"I cannot help it"--the hysteric motto
+Knew how to keep his knowledge to himself upon occasion
+Library gathered like his is a looking-glass
+Live folks are only dead folks warmed over
+Love does not thrive without hope
+Mechanical plodders and the indifferent routinists
+Most pathetic image in the world to many women - own tears
+Not handicapped with any burdensome ideals
+Nothing so humble that taste cannot be shown in it
+Patronized, which is not a pleasant feeling
+Picket-guard at the extreme outpost
+Saint may be a sinner that never got down to "hard pan"
+Talk without words is half their conversation
+Truth is only safe when diluted
+Turning bread and milk into the substance of little sinners
+War--Organized barbarism
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+A MORTAL ANTIPATHY
+[Etext #2698] antip10.txt or antip10.zip
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+Beginners are very apt to make what they think are discoveries
+Charlatanism always hobbles on two crutches
+Doctor's wife must keep her tongue in
+Dying, whose eyes may light up, but rarely shed a tear
+Knows everything and doesn't believe anything
+Lecturing to instruct myself
+Lucky mishaps, or, more elegantly, fortunate calamities
+Man who knows what is in books - and what is in men
+Medicine deals chiefly in probabilities
+Nervous revolutions
+Never know the extent of darkness until it is partially illuminated
+Others took assertions on trust
+Perhaps I sha'n't believe in medicine enough to practise it
+Persons who never are young--and never old
+Physicians, of all men in the world, know how to wait
+Sagacity without which learning is a mere incumbrance
+Self-indulging and self-commiserating emotionalism
+Self-love is a cup without any bottom
+Shut out, not all light, but all the light they do not want
+Struggle with the ever-rising mists of delusion
+Tender spot of one or the other is carelessly handled
+Theological students developed a third eyelid
+What has the public to do with my private affairs
+When gratitude is a bankrupt, love only can pay his debts
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+PASSAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE
+[Etext #2706] pages10.txt or pages10.zip
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+Accustomed to tread carefully among the parts of speech
+Are a dozen additional spasms worth living for?
+Fiat voluntas MEA,--let my will be done
+Grief borne as men bear it, felt as women feel it
+Guides have queer notions occasionally
+He smiled an official smile
+Ill health gives a certain common character to all faces
+It was suggested that it might shorten life
+Locomotive intoxication
+Man is essentially an idolater
+New discomfort in place of an old comfort is often a luxury
+Officials become brutalized, I suppose, as a matter of course
+Patients are not the property of their physicians
+Philanthropists are commonly grave, occasionally grim
+Prediction seems to stand in need of an extension
+Prophecies
+Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge
+Teach the ignorance of what people do not want to know
+Timid compromisers
+We are all egotists in sickness and debility
+Weakness had made him querulous
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+MEDICAL ESSAYS
+[Etext #2700] medic10.txt or medic10.zip
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+A man's ignorance is his private property
+Affectation vital to the well-being of society
+All these medications are, prima facie, injurious
+All they want is to be let alone
+An analogy is not an explanation
+Argumentum ad ignorantiam
+Assuming a falsehood as a fact, and giving reasons for it
+At any rate it can do no harm
+Bedside is always the true centre of medical teaching
+Beliefs are rooted in human wants and weakness, and die hard
+Better for mankind,--and all the worse for the fishes
+Bewitching cup of self-quackery
+C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre
+Coincidences
+Colossal system of self-deception
+Community is still overdosed
+Confound belief with evidence
+Congenital incapacity for life
+Count the pulse; also note the time of day
+Counting only their favorable cases
+Cut all their throats, sweetly
+Diseases get well without being "cured,"
+Dislike whatever shakes the dust out of their traditions
+Drugs should always be regarded as evils
+Dullest of teachers is the one who does not know what to omit
+Earned your money by the dose you have taken
+Exception of opium, wine, specifics, and anaesthetics
+Express your opinions freely; defend them rarely
+Extra price for gilding his rich patients' pills
+Extravagance in remedies and trust in remedies
+False appetite in many intelligences
+Fearless in the face of authority
+Find most of the old beliefs alive amongst us to-day
+Flippant loquacity of half knowledge
+Follies and inanities, imposing on the credulous
+Futility of attempting to silence this asserted science
+Generalize the disease and individualize the patient
+Half knowledge dreads nothing but whole knowledge
+Half-censure divided between the parties
+I am too much in earnest for either humility or vanity
+Ignorance is a solemn and sacred fact
+Imperative demand of patients and their friends
+Invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas
+Kept extreme remedies for extreme cases
+Logical errors
+Loud outcry on a slight touch reveals the weak spot
+Medical Jounals must find something to fill their columns
+Medical logic which does not seem to have been taught
+Medicines proper, which hurts a well man, hurts a sick one
+Much as you know, something is still left for you to learn
+Mutual respect of which outward courtesy is the sign
+Natural incapacity for sound observation
+No families take so little medicine as those of doctors
+None of my business to inquire what other persons think
+One whose patients are willing to die in his hands
+Opium, which the Creator himself seems to prescribe
+Over-medication are to a great extent masked by disease
+Pegs to hang facts upon
+Physician and the disease entered, hand in hand
+Point of mental saturation
+Post hoc ergo propter hoc error
+Presumption in favor of poisoning
+Presumption is always against treatments
+Pretensions of presumptuous ignorance
+Pseudological inanity
+Public itself, which insists on being poisoned
+Quackery and idolatry are all but immortal
+Qui a bu, boira
+Rapid rotation of scientific crops
+Save all our old treasures of knowledge and mine deeply for new
+Sick must have somewhat wherewith to busy their thoughts
+Single combats between dead authors and living housemaids
+Singular inability to weigh the value of testimony
+Special gift of the man born for a teacher
+Student must not be led away by the seduction of knowledge
+Sweeping statistical documents
+Take down your sign, or never put it up
+The withered branch of science: medicine
+They are not well if they do not have them
+Time is a very elastic element in Geology and Prophecy
+True meaning of the word "cure"
+Trust more in nature and less in their plans of interference
+Ubi tres medici, duo athei
+Vast community of quacks, with or without the diploma
+Vowed these gifts to the altar, and the gods saved them
+Vulgar love of paradox
+Where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins
+Whether they had better live at all
+Why we teach so much that is not practical
+Wise enough to confess the fact of absolute ignorance
+Words that few understand and most will shortly forget
+Yielding to the tendency to self-delusion
+Young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions
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+THE ENTIRE GUTENBERG FILES OF HOLMES
+[Etext #3252] ohent10.txt or ohent10.zip
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+A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer
+A little queer and uncertain in general aspect.
+A misprint kills a sensitive author
+Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies
+Advised every literary man to have a profession.
+Afraid of books who have not handled them from infancy
+Age and neglect united gradually
+Agreed on certain ultimata of belief
+Algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak
+All his geese are swans
+All men are bores, except when we want them
+All men love all women
+All the forms of moral excellence, except truth
+All want to reach old age and grumble when they get it
+And now we two are walking the long path in peace together
+Another privilege of talking is to misquote
+Arc in the movement of a large intellect
+As I understand truth
+As to clever people's hating each other
+As a child, he should have tumbled about in a library
+Asked Solon what made him dare to be so obstinate
+Assume a standard of judgment in our own minds
+At the mercy of every superior mind
+Audacious self-esteem, with good ground for it
+Automatic and involuntary actions of the mind
+Babbage's calculating machine
+Be very careful to whom you trust one of these keys
+Beautiful effects from wit,--all the prismatic colors
+Been in the same precise circumstances before
+Behave like men and gentlemen about it, if you know how.
+Beliefs are rooted in human wants and weakness, and die hard
+Bells which small trades-people connect with their shop-doors
+Better for mankind,--and all the worse for the fishes
+Better too few words, from the woman we love
+Bewitching cup of self-quackery
+Bill which will render pockets a superfluity in your next suit
+Blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy
+Bowing and nodding over the music
+Brain often runs away with the heart's best blood
+Brilliant flashes--of silence!
+Brute beasts of the intellectual domain
+Bury in it beliefs, doubts, dreams, hopes, and terrors
+But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
+But it was in talking of Life that we came most nearly together
+C'est le DERNIER pas qui co–te
+Called an old man for the first time
+Character is distinctly shown at the age of four months.
+Cigar
+Clairvoyance which sees into things without opening them
+Code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk
+Cold shower-bath the world furnishes gratis
+Comfort is essential to enjoyment
+Commerce is just putting his granite foot upon them
+Common sense, as you understand it.
+Common sense was good enough for him
+Compare the racer with the trotter
+Conceit is just a natural thing to human minds
+Conceit has the virtue of making them cheerful
+Conclusion that he or she is really dull
+Conflicting advice of all manner of officious friends
+Consciousness of carrying a "settler" in the form of a fact
+Controversy
+Conversation which is suggestive rather than argumentative
+Conversational fungi spring up most luxuriantly
+Conversational bully
+Conversational blank checks or counters
+Conversational soprano
+Creative action is not voluntary at all
+Crippled souls
+Crow with a king-bird after him
+Cut your climate to your constitution
+Dangerous subjects
+Demand for intellectual labor is so enormous
+Did I believe in love at first sight?
+Didn't know Truth was such an invalid
+Differ on the fundamental principles
+Dishwater from the washings of English dandyism
+Disputing about remainders and fractions
+Do wish she would get well--or something
+Do you know how important good jockeying is to authors?
+Do you ever wonder why poets talk so much about flowers?
+Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist
+Don't make your moral staple consist of the negative virtues
+Don't believe any man ever talked like that in this world
+Don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side
+Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man
+Don't be in a hurry to choose your friends
+Doomed to the pangs of an undeceived self-estimate
+Dullest of teachers is the one who does not know what to omit
+Dulness is not commonly a game fish
+Earned your money by the dose you have taken
+Easier to dispute it than to disprove it
+Easier to say this than to prove it
+Educational factory
+Elysian abandonment of a huge recumbent chair.
+Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door
+Extra talent does sometimes make people jealous
+Facts always yield the place of honor, in conversation
+Fall silent and think they are thinking
+Few, if any, were ruined by drinking
+Flash terms for words which truly characterize their objects.
+Fortune is the measure of intelligence
+Fortune had left her, sorrow had baptized her
+Friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things
+Gambling with dice or stocks
+Gambling, on the great scale, is not republican
+Generalize the disease and individualize the patient
+Generally ruined before they became drunkards
+Genius in an essentially common person is detestable
+Gift of seeing themselves in the true light
+Give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light
+Give us the luxuries of life
+Good for nothing until they have been long kept and used
+Good feeling helps society to make liars of most of us
+Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris
+Got his hand up, as a pointer lifts his forefoot
+Governed, not by, but according to laws
+Grave without a stone where nothing but a man is buried
+Great silent-moving misery puts a new stamp on us
+Grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love
+Grow old early, if you would be old long
+Habit is a labor-saving invention
+Habits are the crutches of old age
+Half knowledge dreads nothing but whole knowledge
+Half-censure divided between the parties
+Hard it is for some people to get out of a room
+He did not know so much about old age then as he does now
+He that has once done you a kindness
+He who is carried by horses must deal with rogues
+Height of art to conceal art
+Her breathing was somewhat hurried and high, or thoracic
+Here lies buried the soul of the licentiate Pedro Garcias
+Hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer
+Hold their outspread hands over your head
+Holes in all her pockets
+Hoped he did deserve a little abuse occasionally
+Hopelessly dull discourse acts inductively
+How long will school-keeping take to kill you?
+Hung with moss, looking like bearded Druids
+Hydrostatic paradox of controversy
+I always believed in life rather than in books
+I always break down when folks cry in my face
+I allow no "facts " at this table
+I show my thought, another his
+I tell my secrets too easily when I am downhearted.
+I love horses
+I think I have not been attacked enough for it
+I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds
+I replied with my usual forbearance
+I am my own son, as it seems to me
+I had not thought love was ever meant for me.
+I hate books
+I have lived by the sea-shore and by the mountains
+I have taken all knowledge to be my province
+If so and so, we should have been this or that
+If they have run as well as they knew how!
+If I thought I should ever see the Alps!
+Il faut ne pas BRUTALISER la machine
+In what direction we are moving
+Incipit Allegoria Senectutis.
+Infinite ocean of similitudes and analogies
+Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
+Insanity
+Intellectual companions can be found easily
+Is this the mighty occan?--is this all?
+It is by little things that we know ourselves
+It is pleasant to be foolish at the right time
+Judge men's minds by comparing with mine
+Keep his wit in the background
+Key to this side-door
+Knowledge and timber only useful when seasoned
+La main de fer sous le gant de velours
+Laid the egg of the Reformation which Luther hatched
+Laughs at times at the grand airs "Science" puts on
+Law of the road with regard to handsome faces
+Leading a string of my mind's daughters to market
+Leap at a single bound into celebrity
+Learn anything twice as easily as in my earlier days
+Leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his enemies
+Lecturer is public property
+Let us cry!
+Liability of all men to be elected to public office
+Life would be nothing without paper-credit
+Life is maintained by the respiration of oxygen and of sentiment
+Like taking the cat in your lap after holding a squirrel
+Listen to what others say about subjects you have studied
+Little great man
+Little muscle which knows its importance
+Little narrow streaks of specialized knowledge
+Live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made
+Living in a narrow world of dry habits
+Logic
+Logicians carry the surveyor's chain over the track
+Long illness is the real vampyrism
+Look through the silvered rings of the arcus senilis!
+Love must be either rich or rosy
+Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men
+Love-capacity is a congenital endowment
+Lying is unprofitable
+Made up your mind to do when you ask them for advice
+Man of family
+Man who means to be honest for a literary pickpocket
+Man is father to the boy that was
+Man's and a woman's dusting a library
+Man's first life-story shall clean him out, so to speak
+Mathematical fact
+May doubt everything to-day if I will only do it civilly
+Meaningless blushing
+Mechanical invention had exhausted itself
+Memory is a net
+Men that know everything except how to make a living
+Men grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay
+Men of facts wait their turn in grim silence
+Men who have found new occupations when growing old
+Men that it weakens one to talk with an hour
+Men are fools, cowards, and liars all at once
+Might have hired an EARTHQUAKE for less money!
+Moralist and occasional sermonizer
+Most of our common, working beliefs are probabilities
+Moved as if all her articulations were elbow-joints
+Much ashamed of some people for retaining their reason
+Must not read such a string of verses too literally
+Must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it
+Must be weaned from his late suppers now
+Napoleon's test
+Nature dresses and undresses them
+Nature, who always has her pockets full of seeds
+Nearest approach to flying that man has ever made
+Neither make too much of flaws or overstatements
+Never forget where they have put their money
+No families take so little medicine as those of doctors
+No fresh truth ever gets into a book
+No man knows his own voice
+Nobody is so old he doesn't think he can live a year
+None of my business to inquire what other persons think
+Nutritious diet of active sympathetic benevolence
+Oblivion as residuary legatee
+Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library
+Odious trick of speech or manners must be got rid of.
+Oh, so patient she is, this imperturbable Nature!
+Old Age
+Old age appear as a series of personal insults and indignities
+Old jokes are dynamometers of mental tension
+One very sad thing in old friendships
+One whose patients are willing to die in his hands
+One doesn't like to be cruel,--and yet one hates to lie
+One that goes in a nurse may come out an angel
+One can generally tell these wholesale thieves easily enough
+Open patches where the sun gets in and goes to sleep
+Oracle
+Original, though you have uttered it a hundred times
+Ought to produce insanity in every well-regulated mind
+Our brains are seventy-year clocks
+Overrate their own flesh and blood
+Painted there by reflection from our faces
+Passion never laughs
+People in the green stage of millionism
+People that make puns are like wanton boys
+Person is really full of information, and does not abuse it
+Personal incidents that call up single sharp pictures
+Physical necessity to talk out what is in the mind
+Picket-guard at the extreme outpost
+Plagiarism
+Pluck survives stamina
+Poem must be kept and used, like a meersehaum, or a violin
+Poetry, instead of making one other heart happy
+Poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences
+Poor creature that does not often repeat himself
+Poverty is evidence of limited capacity
+Power of human beings is a very strictly limited agency
+Power of music
+Pretensions of presumptuous ignorance
+Pride, in the sense of contemning others
+Probabilities
+Project a principle full in the face of obvious fact!
+Provincial conceit, which some of us must plead guilty to.
+Pseudo-science
+Pseudological inanity
+Public itself, which insists on being poisoned
+Pun is primƒ facie an insult
+Put coppers on the railroad-tracks
+Qu'est ce qu'il a fait?  What has he done?
+Quackery and idolatry are all but immortal
+Question everything
+Racing horses are essentially gambling implements
+Rapidity with which ideas grow old in our memories
+Rather meet three of the scowlers than one of the smilers.
+Rather longer than usual dressing that morning
+Regained my freedom with a sigh
+Religious mental disturbances
+Remarkably intelligent audience
+Remarks like so many postage-stamps
+Returning thanks after a dinner of many courses
+Ribbon which has strangled so many false pretensions
+Sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow
+Saddle-leather is in some respects even preferable
+Saint may be a sinner that never got down to "hard pan"
+Saturation-point of each mind differs from that of every other
+Saying one thing about it and believing another
+Scientific certainty has no spring in it
+Scientific knowledge
+Second story projecting
+See if the ripe fruit were better or worse
+Self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces
+Self-love is a cup without any bottom
+Self-made men?
+Self-unconsciousness of genius
+Sense of SMELL
+Sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living
+"Sentimentality," which is sentiment overdone
+"Settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver
+Several false premises
+Shake the same bough again
+She who nips off the end of a brittle courtesy
+She always laughs and cries in the right places
+Shut out, not all light, but all the light they do not want
+Shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy
+SIN has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all
+Single combats between dead authors and living housemaids
+Singular inability to weigh the value of testimony
+Six persons engaged in every dialogue between two
+Slow to accept marvellous stories and many forms of superstition
+Small potatoes always get to the bottom.
+Smiling at present follies
+So long as a woman can talk, there is nothing she cannot bear
+So much woman in it,--muliebrity, as well as femineity
+So much must be pardoned to humanity
+Society is a strong solution of books
+Society of Mutual Admiration
+Sold his sensibilities
+Some people that think everything pitiable is so funny
+Some people think that truth and gold are always to be washed for
+Somebody had been calling him an old man
+Something she is ashamed of, or ought to be
+Something better than flowers; it is a seed-capsule
+Somewhere,-- somewhere,--love is in store for them
+Stages of life
+Struggle with the ever-rising mists of delusion
+Stupidity often saves a man from going mad
+Style is the man
+Sudden conviction that I had seen it somewhere
+Takes very little to spoil everything for writer, talker, lover
+Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind
+Talk, to me, is only spading up the ground for crops of thought
+Talk without words is half their conversation
+Talkers who have what may be called jerky minds
+Talking with a dull friend affords great relief
+Talking is like playing on the harp
+Talking is one of the fine arts
+Talking shapes our thoughts for us
+Tears that we weep inwardly with unchanging features
+Temptation of money and fame is too great for young people
+Tepid and unstimulating expression of enthusiasm
+Terrible smile
+Thanklessness of critical honesty
+That great procession of the UNLOVED
+The house is quite as much the body we live in
+The schoolmistress had tried life, too
+The Amen! of Nature is always a flower
+The race that shortens its weapons lengthens its boundaries
+The year eighteen hundred and ever-so-few
+The way to argue down a vice is not to tell lies about it
+Their business is not a matter of sympathy, but of intellect
+There is no elasticity in a mathematical fact
+There is a higher law in grammar, not to be put down
+There is almost always at least one key to this side-door
+Think only in single file front this day forward
+Think of the griefs that die unspoken!
+Third vowel as its center
+This is the shortest way,--she said
+This is one of those cases in which the style is the man
+Those who ask your opinion really want your praise
+Time is a fact
+To trifle with the vocabulary
+To pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten
+Too late!---- "It might have been."----Amen!
+Travellers change their guineas, but not their characters
+Triumph of the ciphering hand-organ
+True state of creative genius is allied to reverie, or dreaming
+Truth must roll, or nobody can do anything with it
+Truth is only safe when diluted
+Truth's  sharp corners get terribly rounded
+Truths a man carries about with him are his tools
+Turn over any old falsehood
+Unadorned and in plain calico
+Undertakers
+Unpacks and unfolds incidental illustrations
+Unpretending mediocrity is good
+Virtually old when it first makes its appearance
+Virtue passed through the hem of their parchment
+Virtues of a sporting man
+Vulgarism of language
+Wait awhile!
+Walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization
+Want of ideas, want of words, want of manners
+We die out of houses, just as we die out of our bodies
+We always compare ourselves with our contemporaries.
+We are all theological students
+We carry happiness into our condition
+We don't read what we don't like
+We never tell our secrets to people that pump for them.
+Wedded, faded away, threw themselves away
+Wedding-ring conveys a right to a key to this side-door
+Weeded their circle pretty well of these unfortunates
+What a satire, by the way, is that machine
+What are the great faults of conversation?
+Whether anything can be conscious of its own flavor??
+Whether gifted with the accident of beauty or not
+While she is silent, Nature is working for her
+Who is in advance of it or even with it
+Wholesale professional dealers in misfortune
+Why authors and actors are ashamed of being funny?
+Why did I not ask? you will say
+Will you take the long path with me?
+Winning-post a slab of white or gray stone
+Wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
+Wonder how my great trees are coming on this summer.
+World calls him hard names, probably
+World has a million roosts for a man, but only one nest.
+Yes, I am a man, like another
+Young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions
+Youth and age--something in the soul
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+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Widger's Quotations
+from the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., by David Widger