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Deval L. Patrick, the first black governor of his state and an Obama friend, is one of the few with whom the president has commiserated.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2012

History has in every age applauded the virtue, while it has commiserated the anguish, of the elder Brutus, who sacrificed his sons to the perhaps too rigorous laws of his country.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various