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Quote by Samuel Johnson
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable,

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson

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