Carolina QuotesWhenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. Henry Carolinian
Source
"The Last Leaf"
- work
- The Trimmed Lamp (1907)
- year
- 1907
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“Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her fun…” O. Henry. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-DE51E8E371. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/de51e8e371
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