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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
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