Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before … - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (29 August 1809 – 8 October 1894) was an American physician, writer, poet, and the father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Man’s mind, once stretched by new ideas, never regains its original dimensions.

I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,— give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen.

Now habit is a labor-saving invention which enables a man to get along with less fuel,—that is all; for fuel is force.

Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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