For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
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