Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.


A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (ed. 1868)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one...

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one...

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one...

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one...