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4 Quotes for 'Quackery' in the Database.
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Quackery Quotes
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From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains,
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name, that other men may buy.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 124)
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Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill;
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 75)
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Out, you impostors!
Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
Author: Philip Massinger
Source: Virgin-Martyr (act IV, sc. 1)
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I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death
That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at IV, vii)
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