"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."

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"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."

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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

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