“If met with applause … so does the disease itself become aggravated.”
Aphorisms. Quoted in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 3 (1935), p. 555
Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 640
Context: There is one [disease] which is widespread, and from which men rarely escape. This disease varies in degree in different men … I refer to this: that every person thinks his mind … more clever and more learned than it is … I have found that this disease has attacked many an intelligent person … They … express themselves [not only] upon the science with which they are familiar, but upon other sciences about which they know nothing … If met with applause … so does the disease itself become aggravated.
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