It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.William Osler
To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had -- to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
William Osler
Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.
William Osler
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.
William Osler
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
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