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Complaining Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
- A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
- When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves…
- When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
- Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
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