“Life is an incurable disease.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“This long disease, my life.”
Source: Epistles and Satires of Alexander Pope
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