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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Save the fleeting minute learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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There are only two sorts of doctors those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.
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A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
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It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.
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Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife they are invariably more amiable.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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