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Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.

Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat)
[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Mahomet II, the Great
The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.

Nicholas I
We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]

Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.

Sir Thomas Roe
[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.

Thomas Carlyle
The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.

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