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  • DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

    Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.32, New Directions Publishing