“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.”
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter I.
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