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gptkbp:instanceOf
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Person
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:Harvard_University
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gptkbp:associatedWith
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gptkb:Boston
gptkb:Harvard_Medical_School
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gptkbp:awards
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Honorary_degree_from_Harvard_University
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gptkbp:born
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August 29, 1809
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gptkbp:child
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gptkb:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.
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gptkbp:died
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October 7, 1894
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gptkbp:famousQuote
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
"Life is a great adventure, and the greatest adventure is to live it."
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
"The mind of the scholar, if he be a true scholar, is a great and noble thing."
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gptkbp:field
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Literature
Medicine
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:William_James
gptkb:Henry_James
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
gptkb:Samuel_Johnson
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gptkbp:knownFor
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Contributions to medical jurisprudence
Literary_works
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gptkbp:members
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gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters
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gptkbp:nationality
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American
White_American
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gptkbp:notableFeature
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gptkb:William_James
gptkb:George_Santayana
gptkb:Charles_Sanders_Peirce
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gptkbp:notableWork
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gptkb:The_Autocrat_of_the_Breakfast-Table
gptkb:The_Poet_at_the_Breakfast-Table
The Chambered Nautilus
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:Poet
Essayist
Physician
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gptkbp:placeOfBirth
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gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts
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gptkbp:placeOfDeath
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gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts
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gptkbp:spouse
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Amelia_Lee
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