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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Attributed to Markus Herz by Ernst von Feuchtersleben, Zur Diätetik der Seele (1841), p. 95. First attributed to Twain in 1980s, as in The 637 best things anybody ever said, (1982), Robert Byrne, Atheneum. See talk page for more info.

 

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

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