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Quotation from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
“Does he ever see her beauty at all, or doesn't he simply view her professionally, and comment upon her unwholesome condition all to himself?”
Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 9 (Project Gutenberg #245)
Twain compares the pilot reading danger in a sunset with a doctor who sees the flush in a beauty's cheek as a sign of disease.
Citation: "Does he ever see her beauty at all, or doesn't he simply view her professionally, and comment upon her unwholesome condition all to himself?" — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 9 (Project Gutenberg #245). (id life-on-the-mississippi-q5)
Portrait: Life on the Mississippi, Unknown, Public domain.
