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- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be… — Joseph Addison
- As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz
- A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to… — Ambrose Bierce
- Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton
- renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more… — Ambrose Bierce
- We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to… — Marjane Satrapi
- It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well;… — Joseph Conrad
- There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it… — John Wyndham