“I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.”
Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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