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Quotes › Authors › H › Hester Lynch Piozzi › A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of deat
  • A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

    Hester Lynch Piozzi: A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
    Hester Lynch Piozzi
    Letter to Fanny Burney, 22 November (1781)
    2014
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