"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
-William Osler
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"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.“
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"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
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"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
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"The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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