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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today … The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)