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Physician Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
- PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
- Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease,…
- HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That…
- LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is…
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- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
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