“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. ”
“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”
“The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”
“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.""Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”
“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ”
“I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover – that these fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical ambitions”