Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 2: Sixteen Steps
“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”
Letter to Fanny Burney, November 12, 1781; Charlotte Barrett (ed.) Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1854) vol. 2, p. 82.
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