Cholera: “I’m just going to go; there is so little for me to contribute here in the Netherlands!”
Auntie Lien: “Are you leaving already?”
Cholera: “Would you still like me to stay?”
Auntie Lien: “I don’t know… since you’ve been here the authorities have been doing so much for the people. You are actually the only one they can be bothered with. You interfere so emphatically… and then we get good drinking water; you only have to stick your nose over the border and then garbage piles are cleared away, hovels are condemned, you are…!”
Cholera: “Oh, Miss Prickie! You flatter me too much!”
(Abraham Prikkie’s op- en aanmerkingen, Rotterdam, 1892)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 