“Are you supposed to give up your candidacy? What happened?”
“But they summoned me to the medical department, if I have any scruples, now they want me to get down in the mud when the cholera is frightening us…” (Meaning, you can get dirty in politics or in fighting an epidemic, but not both at the same time? This wants improvement.)
(Humoristické listy, Prague, 1913)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 