Crossword-Solution: REPINERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There has to be one in every family to say the things no one likes to hear and do the things nobody likes to do.” “We are the rich repiners and you are the household drudge!” Christine shouted, laughing at her own wit.

Why should a patriot, leaping for the chance again to attack the oppressor, as at Bunker Hill, now be kidnapped to fight that oppressor’s battles on the endless drifts of the Bunker Hills of the billows? But like many other repiners, Israel was perhaps a little premature with upbraidings like these.

Let rash repiners stand appall’d, In thee who dare not trust; Whose abject souls, like demons dark, Are murmuring in the dust; For man to murmur, or repine At what by thee is done, No less absurd, than to complain Of darkness in the sun.

Let us teach earth's repiners to look through glad eyes, For the world needs the happy far more than the wise.

The only use of complaining of hardships to those who cannot relieve them, must be to obtain sympathy; but if those to whom they complain, are suffering the same hardships in a greater degree, what sympathy can those repiners expect? They certainly find none.