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Definition of Ailment
Ailment

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

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Ailment Quotations

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Petrarch

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.
Bjorn Lomborg

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
Janet Street-Porter

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
Maurice Blanchot

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Alan Jay Lerner


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