Pox quotes

Pox

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Peter Lewis Allen
Peter Lewis Allen Singer-songwriter

"Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity."

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
Pox

"Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit"

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
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"This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars."

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