. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . . (George Eliot)

. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .

George Eliot

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