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title: "4 Agony Years Quotes by 4 authors"
description: "Browse 4 Agony Years quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Agony Years sayings and thoughts."
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> [One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/merle-shain/one-often-learns-more-from-ten-days-of-agony-than-ten-years-of/)

[Merle Shain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/merle-shain/)

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> [we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/we-had-such-tremendous-fun-and-much-agony-together-for-some-years/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-jessy-raphael/you-learn-more-from-ten-days-of-agony-than-from-ten-years-of-content/)

[Sally Jessy Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-jessy-raphael/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/709/sally-jessy-raphael-61721_acceptance_you-learn-more-from-ten-days-of-agony-th_823402.png)

> [One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/one-often-learns-more-from-ten-days-of-agony-than-from-ten-years-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/065/anonymous-1_agony_one-often-learns-more-from-ten-days-of-a_1505786.jpg)

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