“Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 2, pg. 48
“Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."”
— Plutarch
Life of Caius Marius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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