“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
55% of people like this quote