English Patient

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    He that seeks trouble never misses.
    —17th-Century English proverb, first collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn’t want all the pills I’ve recommended that’s up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
    —Javier Pérez De Cuéllar (b. 1920)