“My sore throats are always worse than anyone's”
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“My sore throats are always worse than anyone's”
“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant”
“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning”
“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital”
“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work”
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman”
“Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death”
“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”
“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured”
“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains”
“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love”
“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy”
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis”
“To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives”
“How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself”
“One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough”
“The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it”