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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.
Approximate author period: c. 1670 AD · renaissance
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- Jean de la Bruyere
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- Approximate author period: c. 1670 AD · renaissance
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Jean de la Bruyere: recorded author lifetime 1645–1696. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314975 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is jean-de-la-bruyere; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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