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title: "6 Great Plague Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [“Nineteen teeth from twelve sixth-century plague pits in Aschheim near Munich provided the source of the Code of Justinian. In among the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/nineteen-teeth-from-twelve-sixth-century-plague-pits-in-aschheim-near/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

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> [But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-jenks/but-we-remember-that-it-was-just-precisely-in-the-reign-of-richard-ii/)

[Edward Jenks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-jenks/)

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> [ It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. \[Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/it-is-a-great-plague-to-be-too-handsome-a-man-lat-nimia-est-miseria/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [Idleness is the great plague of India.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/idleness-is-the-great-plague-of-india/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [“I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-patchen/i-have-told-the-story-of-the-great-plague-summer-as-an-artist-i-could/)

[Kenneth Patchen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-patchen/)

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> [Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kane/our-forces-shall-spread-like-a-great-plague-across-the-earth-every/)

[Kane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kane/)

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