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  • I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

    "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".