#ailment

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

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#dealing #had #holding #hurting #i

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

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#astonished #before #came #clerk #coins

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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#deplorable #joy #life #sleep