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Franklin.--I submit, and thank you for the past, but intreat the discontinuance of your visits for the future: for in my mind one had better die, than be cured so dolefully.
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “Franklin.--I submit, and thank you for the past, but intreat the discontinuance of your visits for the future: for in my…”
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Franklin expresses a desire to stop receiving visits from his physician, preferring death over such treatment.
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