“Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”
— H. G. Wells, book Boon
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)
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