We can now look forward with something like confidence to the time when war between civilised nations will be considered as antiquated as a duel.

-Gooch, George Peabody
History of Our Time1855^1911.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

-Sontag, Susan
  In the NewYork Review of Books, 26 Jan.