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"What is care?" asked the Princess, with a smile.
"It is a god", replied the Physician, "invisible, but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse — it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair grey".
--
The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 5, ch. 5 (1833).

 

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