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Letter "T" » tolerable
«A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man»
Author: Frances Thompson
| About:
Dogs
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appears, General will, liberally, maintain, tolerable, to a man
«Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?»
Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle
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absent, inventor, likenesses, the inventor, this art, tolerable
«It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.»
«But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.»
«But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.»
«Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Government
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actually, arbitrary, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, cruel, grasping, tolerable, unintelligent, worst
«Fire is the most tolerable third party»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Fire
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third party, tolerable
«Good-humor makes all things tolerable»
«It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived»
«Is most tolerable, and not to be endured.»
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