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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

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Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
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