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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: 'Have no anxiety about the morrow'; or the words of Sir William Osler; 'Live in day-tight compartments.

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

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To study the phenomenon 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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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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