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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.
- William Osler

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
- William Osler
