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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
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