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John Dryden

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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
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Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton (1700), line 92-95.

 
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