Nakkeerar

“read the prescription.  It ran: “1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don’t stuff up your head with things you don’t understand.”   I followed the directions, with the happy result—speaking for myself—that my life was preserved, and is still going on.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“This is one of the most dreadful evils of alcohol, that it kills insidiously, as if it were doing no harm, or as if it were doing good, while it is destroying”
― Martha Meir Allen, Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say

“correction of the individual is not sufficient to prevent relapse if we do not also, to the best of our ability, reform the social environment.”
― Enrico Ferri, Criminal Sociology

“Everything in the world of Matter is unreal; the only reality is in the world of Spirit. Emancipate yourselves from the tyranny of the former; strive to attain the latter.”
― Henry Steel Olcott, The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons