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William Osier Quotes: It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
         

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.


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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
         



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