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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
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