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Quote by Randall Jarrell
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. – Randall Jarrell

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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

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Untold suffering seldom is. – Franklin P. Jones

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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. – Lord Jeffrey

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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. – Proverb

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Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. – William Osler

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