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Yet, strangely enough, in spite of his wonderful 

 constitution, he was always nervously anxious about 

 himself, would magnify a trifling ailment into a serious 

 disease, and work himself into a perfect fever of alarm 

 over an indisposition of which others would have 

 thought nothing. But this is a not uncommon failing 

 with those who are seldom ill, and who seem to appre- 

 ciate no gradations between perfect health and dangerous 

 sickness. 



