Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only …

Marcel Proust
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ✨ Marcel Proust (1948). The Maxims of Marcel Proust
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ✨ Marcel Proust (1948). The Maxims of Marcel Proust

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