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Money, Health, Sickness, Wealth
God heals and the Doctor takes the Fees. –Benjamin Franklin Money-giving is a very good criterion . . . of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. —Karl A Menninger, Co-Founder of the Menninger Clinic of Psychoanalysis. The poorest man would not part with health for money, but . . . the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. –C. C. Colton (1780-1832). Addressed to Those Who Think, l.225. 1823. Health is better than wealth. –John Ray (1628-1705). A Collection of English Proverbs. p. 153, 1678. Having good health is very different from only being not sick. –Seneca the Younger, (5? B.C.—A. D. 65 Preface (1.6) to Natural Questions. Tr. Thomas A. Corcoran, 1921. Bill Murray’s rumored to have said: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 350,000 times — you’re a weatherman.”My Doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the x-rays. –Jerry Bishop.A physician who heals for nothing is worth nothing. –The Talmud |
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