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O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes read more
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
serious which proceeds from the head.
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And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
serious which proceeds from the head.
[Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est
morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.