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 MARK TWAIN

sound, regular, trustworthy appetite, then take to your one and a half permanently, and don t listen to the family any more. When you have any ordinary ailment, particularly of a feverish sort, eat nothing at all during twenty-four hours. That will cure it. It will cure the stubbornest cold in the head, too. No cold in the head can survive twenty-four hours on modified starvation.&quot;

I know it. I have proved it many a time.&quot;

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