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  • You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motives. Never complain and never explain.

    - Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (of Bewdley)
      Advice to Harold Nicholson.

  • Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

    - George Crabbe
      Poems,'The Parish Register', pt.1, l.273^4.

  • The world isdisgracefully managed, onehardly knowsto whom to complain.

    - (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald Firbank
      Vainglory, ch.10.

  • We musn't complaintoomuch of being comediansit's anhonourableprofession.Ifonly we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style.

    - (Henry) Graham Greene
      The Comedians, pt.2, ch.5.

  • Weep If you can, Weep, But do not complain And you must be thankful.

    - Dag HjalmarAgne Carl Hammarskjo«  ld
    Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

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