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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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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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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
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That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
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The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.
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Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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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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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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