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"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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"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."
"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."
"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."
"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."
"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."
"No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition."
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