Influenza Quotes - Page 2

• Hay egoístas aburridos y brillantes, sagrados y profanos, groseros y finos. Es una enfermedad que, como la gripe, afecta a todas las constituciones. En el trastorno conocido por los médicos como corea, el paciente a veces se da la vuelta y continúa girando lentamente en un punto. ¿Es el egoísmo una varioloide metafísica de esta enfermedad?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Physicians, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.801, Modern Library

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• The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

  Stella Gibbons

  Art, Epidemics, Years

  Stella Gibbons (1977). "Cold comfort farm", Penguin (No Clásicos)

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