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)