Quotes About Small-pox

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use?

You can turn your hand to anything, you clever girl, so do come and give me some advice, for I am in the depths of despair, said Fanny, when the maid-of-all-work, as Polly called herself, found a leisure hour. What is it? Moths in the furs, a smokey chimney, or small-pox next door? asked Polly as they entered Fan's room, where Maud was trying on old bonnets before the looking glass. Actually I have nothing to wear, began Fan impressively.

There is no cholera, no yellow-fever, no small-pox more contagious than debt.