Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest a

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – William Cullen Bryant

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

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