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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Born: Sep 18, 1709
Died: Dec 13, 1784

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Complaint, More, Excite, Contempt, Than, Pity, Fortune, Usual

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. Sigmund Freud
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Soren Kierkegaard
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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. Doris Day
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. W. E. B. Du Bois
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A man endures misfortune without complaint. Franz Schubert
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. Adam Smith
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. Robert Burns
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Now, can some cops be overbearing, rude? Yeah. But we have a process for that. Do what the officer tells you to do, and file a complaint. That's the process. You don't attack a police officer on the street or resist arrest because you think you're being hassled. David A. Clarke, Jr.
You Police Rude Think Complaint Tells Some Attack Police Officer Because Yeah Arrest Officer Being Process File Now Street Cops Resist

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