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An apple a day keeps the doctor away
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” he enlightened Mrs. Babbitt, for quite the first time in fourteen hours.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

An apple a day Keeps the doctor away
For example: Ait a happle avore gwain to bed, An’ you’ll make the doctor beg his bread ( Dev. ); or as the more popular version runs: An apple a day Keeps the doctor away.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

an apple a day keeps the doctor away
“Improvement on ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away,’” quoted Ruth.
— from Ruth Fielding In the Saddle; Or, College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

An apple a day keeps the doctor away
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
— from Punch or the London Charivari, October 10, 1920 by Various

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