#intolerable

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. ↗

— Plato

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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