Thowaiba

“    'It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.)”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, as Mr Bob Sawyer very justly observed, that there is nothing like hot punch in such cases; and that if ever hot punch did fail to act as a preventive, it was merely because the patient fell in to the vulgar error of not taking enough of it.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother, after he'd bled him to death.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.”
― Martin Luther