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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Mark Twain
Honesty, Suffering, Poison
Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.357, Univ of California Press
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.