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Mortimer Collins
(29 Jun 1827 - 28 Jul 1876)
English novelist.
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Science Quotes by Mortimer Collins (1)
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
— Mortimer Collins
The Village Comedy Vol. 2. In Peter McDonald, Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 27. Quoted without attribution in Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: Many Things in Few Words (1866), 191. Attributed in Encarta to Peter Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (1878-1947), who was born after the publication by Colton.
