"It is at a time like this, when……" — Peter Mayle

"It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you."

— Peter Mayle

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To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows… — William Mountford
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Before we commiserate with others, right pity ourselves before others sympathetic to our plight — Unknown Author
We see each other socially occasionally. When he was going through the first parts of his divorce we'd commiserate a… — Jon Cryer

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