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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Books - Reading
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Children
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Vision
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Studying
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Life and Living
Horace

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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Respectability
Edgar Watson Howe

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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Causes
Edgar Watson Howe

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
Martyrdom
Nathaniel Howe

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Action
William Dean Howells

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All the world loves a good loser.
Losers and Losing
Kin Hubbard

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The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.
World
Kin Hubbard

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Evans Hughes

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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Prejudice
Aldous Huxley

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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Facts
Thomas H. Huxley

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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Sentiment
Thomas H. Huxley

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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Self-reliance
Henrik Ibsen

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Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.
Wealth
Italian Proverb

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The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Education
Michael Jackson

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The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.
Materialism
Henry Jacobsen

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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Television
Clive James

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Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
Worry
Clive James

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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
Spirit and Spirituality
William James

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Truth
Douglas William Jerrold

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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Family
John Paul II

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Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
Control
Jeremy P. Johnson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun