May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise wh…

Florence Nightingale
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May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done! ✨ Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, p.218, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
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