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If you're a bad actor, you don't get hired. But if you're a bad doctor, you can still practice medicine.

— Richard Burton

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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

She can do everything…there’s nothing she can’t do...she looks after me so well. Thank God I’ve found her.’

The only thing in life is language. Not love. Not anything else.

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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.

John Dryden Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton (1700)

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

Petronius

Pharmacy is but a small part of physic; medical cannot be separated from moral science without reciprocal and essential mutilation.

John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

Douglas William Jerrold

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