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

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

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"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."

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"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."

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"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."

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"I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world."

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"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."

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"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."

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

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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."

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"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

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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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