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Physician or Fool

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Plutarch, in his treatise On the Preservation of Health, tells us that Tiberius was wont to say, “A man of thirty is his own physician or a fool.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Phormio
Phrygians
Phryne
Phylactery
Phyllis
Phyllis and Brunetta
Phyllising the Fair
Phynnodderee [the Hairy-one]
Physician
Physician or Fool
Physician, heal Thyself
Physignathos [one who swells the cheeks]
Piarists
Pic-nic
Picador (Spanish)
Picards
Picaroon
Picatrix
Piccadilly (London)
Piccinists (1774–1780)