| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 28736 |
| QUOTATION: | The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935), U.S. jurist. Speech, January 8, 1897, Boston, Massachusetts. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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