“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”

— Oliver Goldsmith, book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.

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Irish physician and writer 1728–1774

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