Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is t…

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Posner (1997). The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., p.95, University of Chicago Press
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