John S. Wise records this conversation with Grover Cleveland:
“I ought to have a monument over me when I die.” “I am sure
of that, Mr. Cleveland,” I answered; “but for what particular
service?” “Oh, not for anything I have ever done,” said he,
“but for the foolishness I have put a stop to! If you knew the
absurd things proposed to me at various times while I have
been in public life--things which I sat down on, and sat down
hard on--you would say so, too!”--“Personal Reminiscences of
Cleveland,” _The Saturday Evening Post_.
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In morals, quite as truly as in physics, the profitable time to deal
with any evil is in its incipient stage:
The diseases that occupy the physician most are maladies that
have reached an advanced stage, when it is not easy to combat
them. On the other hand, the study of diseases at their
outset, when they yield best to treatment, is almost neglected.
It is certain that if every physician were also a trained
physiologist, watching to relieve the slightest functional
troubles, he would often be able to recognize small changes
that are the common preludes to grave maladies.--_Revue
Scientifique._
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See FEAR AS A MOTIVE; WARNING.