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• I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Twenties, Letters, Knees

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.9, Diderot Publishing

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• These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Book, Philosophical

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.251, Modern Library

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• The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

  Socrates

  Beautiful, Soul, Reason

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• There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Views, Flames, Long

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• Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

  Mary McCarthy

  Laughter, Self, Wind

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• Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

  Agnes Repplier

  Love Is, Patient, Common

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Drinking, Odds, Boredom

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• There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

  Max Lerner

  Ambition, Vanity, Spy

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

  Andre Gide

  Mean, Laughing, Suffering

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• He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

  Thornton Wilder

  Youth, Pale, Late

  Thornton Wilder (1963). “Bridge San Luis Rey”

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• Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. That's why liberals promote policies to break up families. Every social malady is a victory for the left. A couple gets divorced and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A child is born out of wedlock and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A person gets addicted to drugs and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!"

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Couple, Drug

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.

  Joseph Hall

  Adversity, Weather, Numbers

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• The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Ego, Disease, Consciousness

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• Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Gold, Inheritance, Sickness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.115, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, War, Climate

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• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Men, Moon

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fashion, Psychics, Choices

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.143, Penguin

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• He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.

  Maimonides

  Fall, Eye, Teeth

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• Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?

  Margaret Atwood

  Artist, Mad, People

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Order, Risk

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• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Humble

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• Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Worry, Serious

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• Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Disease, Chords, Tales

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• Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.

  Alain Badiou

  Plato, Philosophical, Order

  "Plato, Our Dear Plato!". Magazine littéraire, no. 447, November 2005.

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• The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Cutting, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.587, New Leaf Publishing Group

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