“I had it for about fifteen years until I read Lenin and other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society and how to cure it… Since then I have needed no magnesia.”

On being cured of his gastritis, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 June 1940) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764097,00.html

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