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Monday, June 03, 2019

Post #2841

You see men of the most delicate frames engaged in active and professional pursuits who really have no time for illness. Let them become idle—let them take care of themselves, let them think of their health—and they die! The rust rots the steel which use preserves.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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