#insupportable

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. ↗

— Henry Adams

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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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