My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seve…

Samuel Johnson
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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). The Life of Samuel Johnson, p.245
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