An apple a day keeps the doctor away
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away : This well-known statement is based on an 1860s Welsh proverb that eating apples will diminish doctor visits.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," he enlightened Mrs. Babbitt, for quite the first time in fourteen hours.
From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
There is an old saying and a good one, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," quotes a weekly paper.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. by Various
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