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Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs

Physician — One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. – Ambrose Bierce

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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The two best physicians of them all — Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep. – Gregory Dean Jr.

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Physician, heal thyself. – Proverb

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A surgeon should be young a physician old. – Proverb

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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. – W. H. Auden

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