Depend upon it if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic

Comment (1780)
    (Source)

In Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, ch. 51 "1780" (1791)