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  • 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise.
    2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost.
    3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue.
    4. Take now and then a day's rest.
    5. Get a smart seasickness if you can.
    6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy.
    This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

    Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi (1952). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782”