Oswaldo Cruz [Brazilian public health figure]: “Look here, plague of the devil! You are now making fun with me… I have the law for the expulsion of foreigners. It’s empty plates for you! I’ll throw you out of the bar!”
The Plague: “Sir? As long as there are mice and crap, and as long as little more is done out there against them than fumigation and reports… I have the habeas corpus guaranteed and I will stay here as well as in my seven country houses! I will not go!”
(Note how the scythe is no longer only Asiatic, but now also Levantine and American.)
(O Malho, Rio de Janeiro, 1907)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 