A Quote by Ambrose Bierce
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
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[Lat., Quod medicorum est
Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]
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