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Of all the calamities to which ‘humanity is subject, none is so…
Quote byDorothea Dix · 1802–1887
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "On Behalf of the Insane Poor in Kentucky" (February 1846).
English (original)
Of all the calamities to which ‘humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. Pinching want, hideous deformity, acute disease, mutilation, deafness, blindness; all these are distressing in their effects alike upon the sufferer and those with whom he is connected
— Dorothea Dix
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