Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affa

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. – Ambrose Bierce

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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa –slightly off balance. – Prince Of Wales Charles

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What cant be cured must be endured. – Robert Burton

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Medicines are only fit for old people. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Todays medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. Thats been tried too often. Todays medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation. – Maurice Delort

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