Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragette
The Confessions of a Lost Dog (London: Griffith & Farran, 1867), p. 19.
“We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials.”
"After Twenty Five Years", an address at McGill College, Montreal (1899); later published in Aequanimitas : With other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine (1910), p. 210.
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