"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
― Samuel Johnson
Topic(s): Medical
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- "A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
- "The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."
- "The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
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- "Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."― Abe Lemons