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Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

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The stealthy foot of time carries us from youth to age so imperceptibly that we are hardly aware of the change; insensibly we shorten our arms, husband our strength, and are willing to think our prowess undiminished.

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The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

Clifford Allbutt

Clifford Allbutt

Clifford Allbutt

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Born: July 20, 1836

Died: February 22, 1925 (aged 88)

Bio: Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt was an English physician and inventor of the clinical thermometer.

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A System of Medicine (1896)

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