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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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Recorded source
Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)

Health · anthology attribution: Lytton

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