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Quotation from The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
“Certainly one could replace it at once, but I assure you the remedy would be worse than the disease.”
The Nose, Part II, trans. Claud Field (1916)
The doctor declines to reattach the nose.
Citation: "Certainly one could replace it at once, but I assure you the remedy would be worse than the disease." — Nikolai Gogol, The Nose, Part II, trans. Claud Field (1916). (id gogol-the-nose-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, Public domain.
