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Napoleon Bonaparte

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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Napoleon is saying that doctors will be held more responsible for the lives they affect than military leaders are for their soldiers. He implies that because doctors directly influence many individual lives through their decisions, their accountability in the afterlife will be greater.

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