Top 21 Samuel Hopkins Adams Quotes
#1. The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.
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#2. Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
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#3. Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.
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#5. By no stretch of charity could he be called an ornament to the human species.
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#6. You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.
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#7. Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
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#9. I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.
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#10. Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.
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#11. A wasted human being
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.
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#13. With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.
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#15. Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.
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#16. I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.
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#17. We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
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#18. Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.
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#19. With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
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#21. Anything is easy to the man who sees ... The open eye of the open mind
that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.
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