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1 He felt, as a painful burden , the obligation of dissembling towards them.
2 But you were carrying a terrible, painful burden , all by yourself.
3 The dilemma would be an especially painful burden for a journalist and public figure.
4 Under the painful burden of their sorrow they yet manifest the purity of simple goodness.
5 But an acquisition now would be a very painful burden on our capital, he said.
6 So far I have kept this secret, mother, and it has been to me a painful burden .
7 He had expected her to be shocked and horror-stricken at first, before she realized that she had been relieved of a painful burden .
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