Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Quoted

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“Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.”

W. H. Auden · Health

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

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