It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen lif

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. – Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832), Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Add

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