George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families."
Gout quotes
Gout
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Hippocrates
Physician
"Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald."
Thomas Adams
Author, Historian
"He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end."
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara."
Edmund Wilson
Literary Critic and Essayist
"At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout."
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"It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores."
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