I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater, but there is no reason to suppose that the cosmos does.
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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view.
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.
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Every opinion tends to become a law.
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A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory ... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel, and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.
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I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to hell I will help them. It's my job.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
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