The Unexpected Detriment Of Projecting Personal Ailments Onto The Body Politic

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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails." 

Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition  (1973) 

Alan: The word "ail" is also a noun.