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It is uncomfortable to be employed in anything where the employer 

 is more interested than the employed. This is the case with physic and 

 the law ; but more with the first ; for, although it is the interest of 

 every medical gentleman to attend to his patient, yet he can seldom 

 give that satisfaction he could wish. 



Medical men are always very ready to suppose disease, but are never 

 ready to doubt. 



It is much more pardonable to fall into an error than to follow an error. 



Speaking truth is no natural propensity ; it is only relating occurrences 

 that have struck our senses, and are therefore more lively in our 

 imaginations than anything we can feign. Besides, by law or by asso- 

 ciation, we have made it bad in a man to he, because we found it pro- 

 ductive of evil to those that choose to speak the truth. 



When a man gives up anything, he has either a weak mind, or no 

 fertility of genius. 



It requires a great deal of courage in a man to continue poor while 

 it is in his power to get rich 1 . 



Accusing Mr. Fox of having debauched the minds of most of the 

 young men of fashion in this kingdom, I was answered, that he was 

 liked by them all : I made reply, tbat they were similar in that respect 

 to the women ; for they could not help having a fondness for the man 

 that had seduced them. 



Mr. Burke's speeches put one in mind of a shrub full of flowers, 

 which is pretty while viewed ; but, strip it of its flowers, and it will 

 hardly be taken notice of. 



1 [Hunter must have penned this from personal consciousness. He might have 

 died rich, if he had devoted his powers to the growth of his own fortune, instead of 

 to the progress of science : he preferred to die poor, and to leave to his profession 

 and the world a museum unrivalled in its teachings of the principles of medicine 

 and surgery.] 



