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A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes mind

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes drift

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It…

Oliver Wendell Holmes ability achievement

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes ability achievement

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely…

Oliver Wendell Holmes ability achievement

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Oliver Wendell Holmes advice

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends a…

Oliver Wendell Holmes age

An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Oliver Wendell Holmes aging old age

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes aging old age

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must g…

Oliver Wendell Holmes aging old age

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Oliver Wendell Douglas' sitcom 72.00%
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The Great ___ (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s nickname) 63.64%
Oliver Twist and others 63.64%
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Unscramble OLIVER 6-letter words that start with O 6-letter words that end in R 6-letter words containing LI 6-letter words containing ER 6-letter words with O and L

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Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

EEN

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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