I Cannot Here Avoid Giving My Most Decided Sufferage In Favour Of The Moral Qualities Of Maniacs.

I Cannot Here Avoid Giving My Most Decided Sufferage In Favour Of The Moral Qualities Of Maniacs.

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I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the
moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in
romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more
impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of
calmness and reason.
-- Philippe Pinel, 'Treatise on Insanity' 1801

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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of the atom
I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet should fall into a most ingenious treatise on Philosophy....
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
-- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923...
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
-- Aristotle...
I cleaned up my act once, but I decided it was more fun when it was dirty.
I plead not guilty by reason of computer-induced insanity.