The Medical World, Volumes 46-47

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1928

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Page 104 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force ; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community ; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual...
Page 210 - When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must— but don't you quit.
Page 259 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 287 - The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.
Page 4 - Smith spoke about — that you can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Page 74 - drunk" should always be taken to mean that the person concerned was so much under the influence of alcohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to execute safely the occupation on which he was engaged at the material time.
Page 259 - D. C., at $3000 to $4000 a year, and vacancies in positions requiring similar qualifications, at these or higher or lower salaries, will be filled from this examination, unless it is found in the interest of the service to fill any vacancy by reinstatement, transfer, or promotion.
Page 18 - Pity allows them to leave their job when they damn-well choose. As in the thronged and the lighted ways, so in the dark and the desert they stand, Wary and watchful all their days that their brethren's days may be long in the land.
Page 355 - I would rather have one pleasant word In kindness said to me Than flattery when my heart is still And this life has ceased to be. I would rather have a loving smile From friends I know are true Than tears shed round my casket When this world I've bid adieu.
Page 209 - Life Is sweet just because of the friends we have made, and the things which In common we share. We want to live on, not because of ourselves, but because of the people who care.

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