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A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of

A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

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Alcohol/Alcoholism
Author
Samuel Butler
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Life
Author
Samuel Butler
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Health
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Samuel Butler
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldnt pay the bill he gave me six months more. – Walter Matthau

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Medicines are not meat to live by. – German proverb

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Medical

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctors office was full of portraits by Picasso. – Rita Rudner

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Medical

Life is pharmaceutical from head to cuticle. – David McCord, Perambulator Poems, 1941

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Medical

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