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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
  — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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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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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. 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
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It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
  — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
  — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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