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strain

«You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.»
«When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.»
«What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.»
«With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die»
«Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.»
«When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.»

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