| One should not bring sympathy to a sick
man. It is always kindly meant, and of course it has to be taken--but it
isn't much of an improvement on castor oil. One who has a sick man's true
interest at heart will forbear spoken sympathy, and bring him surreptitious
soup and fried oysters and other trifles that the doctor has tabooed. - Letter to Mary Mason Fairbanks, 20 Feb 1868 |
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....as far as being on the verge of being a sick man
I don't take any stock in that. I have been on the verge of being an angel
all of my life, but it's never happened yet.
- Mark Twain, a Biography |
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