“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

— Alexander Pope

George Dennison Prentice http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4820, in Prenticeana (1860)
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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

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