consumption quotes

• There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether. (Havelock Ellis) [consumption/consumption/destroy]
• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. (Mahatma Gandhi) [suffering/consumption/civilization & progress/disease]
• A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. (George Santayana) [change/experience/consumption/fraud]
• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. (William Shakespeare) [consumption/disease]

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