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“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.”
Robert Frost
“To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship”
Samuel Johnson
“Patience cures many an old complaint.”
Irish Proverb
“All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live”
Mark Twain
“I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception”
“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision”
Helen Keller
“In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause”
“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.”
John Milton
