I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

All of our ring personas are elements of our real personalities, but turned up to 11.

I laugh at him and use every little Art in my power to make him view things in a more cheerful light, but he knows better than I do, and tho' his good nature and politeness make him appear to be diverted with my foolings, I am sensible they do not amuse his melancholy.

And then there were the chronics, not only those with marked pathology but life-long sufferers from indigestion or migraine, who had been passed around from doctor to doctor with nothing but temporary relief.