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IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FIND TROUBLE, COMPLAIN FOR NOTHING AND THAT
WILL MAKE TROUBLE AND THEN YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT

Submitter comment: INFORMANT'S MOTHER, NELLY CARPE SAID THIS WHEN INFORMANT WAS A CHILD
INFORMANT CLAIMED HER GRANDMOTHER ALSO SAID THIS TO HER MOTHER,
NELLY CARPE.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PONTIAC

Keyword(s): ADVICE: POSITIVE

James Callow Keyword(s): CIRCULAR REASONING

Subject headings:

PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 10-02-1971

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