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“And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor."”
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- quote
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- 2026-07-04
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- e538cdf806b2b23beca78c1ce59ff0dc9fe08fff624975f6e75d0f90d9f9750b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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