Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Puzzles

• Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling ___.
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• A man should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have ___.
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• The mind of a ___ is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
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• To have ___ one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.?

  • → Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
  • → I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
  • → A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
  • → A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..

  • → Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
  • → It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
  • → There is no education like adversity.
  • → Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..

  • → A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
  • → The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
  • → An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
  • → A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
  
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