#ailment

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

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#curtailment #down #during #era #go

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health? ↗

— Petrarch

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#any #blessing #dangerous #desire #found

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

— Virginia Woolf

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#deplorable #joy #life #sleep