#intolerable

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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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. ↗

— Saint Basil

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