"The American Constitution, one of the few..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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“There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.”
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