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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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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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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
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