“1800. Make not a Jest of another Man's Infirmity. Remember thy own.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“There are those who strive to stamp with disrepute
The luscious food, because it feeds the brute;
In tropes of high-strain'd wit, while gaudy prigs
Compare thy nursling man to pamper'd pigs;
With sovereign scorn I treat the vulgar jest,
Nor fear to share thy bounties with the beast.”
Canto 1: st. 10, lines 1–6
The Hasty-Pudding (1793)
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This is often attributed to Hippocrates but does not appear in the Hippocratic corpus. See Diana Cardenas https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258099432_Let_not_thy_food_be_confused_with_thy_medicine_The_Hippocratic_misquotation, "Let not thy food be confused with thy medicine: The Hippocratic misquotation", e-SPEN: The European e-Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism XXX:6 (October 2013). <br class="br">Disputed
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Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) 18th-century poet and author from Scotland
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The Castle-builder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
