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  5. Id sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. ...

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

George Eliot
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George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.145
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.