He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients

Mark Twain
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. ✨ Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, p.107
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. ✨ Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, p.107

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