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One evil in old age is, that as your time is come, you think every

One evil in old age is, that as your time is come, you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested, every knock at the door is an alarm. – Sydney Smith, letter to Robert Wilmot-Horton, 1836 February 8th

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