| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1088 |
| AUTHOR: | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935) |
| QUOTATION: | I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, Memorial Day speech, May 30, 1884, Keene, New Hampshire.—Holmes, Speeches, p. 3 (1934). |
| SUBJECTS: | Life |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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