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"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot."
"Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane."
"The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!"
"In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better."
"Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate."
"How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod."
"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
"Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice."
"Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses."
"There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse."
"I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart."
"For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same."
"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
"Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse."
"Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds."
"Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder."
"Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out."
"Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him."
"One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty."
