I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
“But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.”
“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.”