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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) 

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to 
say disagreeable things to your intimates. 
The nearer you come into relation with a person, 
the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind 
than in the one they where they sprang up 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes 

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, 
but its echo lasts s great deal longer. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend 
to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; 
they are ready enough to tell them. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes 

A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, 
can never go back to its original dimension. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1809 - 1894) 

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. 
--Oliver Wendell Holmes Justice