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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol” - 1843

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley” - 1962

“The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon...” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” - 1839

“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some...” John Muir, “Stickeen” - 1897

“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.” Margaret Thatcher, “The Downing Street Years” - 1993

“When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Quarantine Speech” - 5 October 1937

“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887

“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.” Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

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A Christmas Carol (1)
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