Quote#Wisdom
Doctors is all swabs... and that doctor there, why, what do he know…
Quote byRobert Louis Stevenson · 1850–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot..
English (original)
Doctors is all swabs... and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes — what do the doctor know of lands like that? — and I lived on rum, I tell you.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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