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• William Osler:

  No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

• William Osler:

  One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

• William Osler:

  In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

• William Osler:

  The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

• William Osler:

  It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their cont

• William Osler:

  The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life wit

• William Osler:

  It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease

• Oscar Wilde:

  Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

• Albert Einstein:

  Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

• William Makepeace Thackeray:

  I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.