One pain is lessened by another's anguish.... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. (William Shakespeare)

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

William Shakespeare

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