"There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse."

Sterne, Laurence on doctors   

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"A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again."

Pope, Alexander on learning   

"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on truth   

"Truth never hurts the teller."

Browning, Robert on truth
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"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."

Borne, Ludwig on truth
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"Truth alone wounds."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on truth   

"Time is generally the best doctor."

Ovid on doctors   

"Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness."

Galen, Claudius on doctors   

"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find."

Diderot, Denis on doctors   

"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Chekhov, Anton on doctors
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"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Shakespeare, William on self-respect
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