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Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
- William Shakespeare
Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lear, in King Lear, act 2, sc. 4, l. 106-9. Ill health makes us neglect the duties (”all office”) we are obliged to do when well.

Categories: Dramatist, Duty, Sickness, Suffering

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