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Quote from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.



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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (more quotes by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. or books by/about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)


(1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"

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On his 90th birthday to a journalist (8 March 1931), as quoted in Information 2000: Library and Information Services for the 21st Century, Vol. 1991, Part 2 (1992) by the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, p. 272.

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Justice, Power, God, Success, Wisdom

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