"That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining."

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Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country, but he would like to be allowed to criticize something, and that he is absolutely refused.

— Alexis de Tocqueville