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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

- Anaïs Nin

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

- David Bailey

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Fame has robbed me of my freedom and shut me up in prison, and because the prison walls are gilded, and the key that locks me in is gold, does not make it any more tolerable.

- Ronald Colman

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

- Adam J. Smith

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

- Adm James D. Watkins

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

- Alison Morano

Up until now, we`ve done little but complain. Until now, we`ve stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we`ve come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.

- Anthony Vidler

What is the use of a house if you haven`t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

Fire is the most tolerable third party

- Henry David Thoreau

What`s the use of a fine house if you haven`t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau