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Like the pangs of conscience during a hangover, these words of wise old Bernard Baruch in mid-1946 were perhaps overfraught with a sense of guilt.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

From A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles