tolerable quotes

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersöNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

-Austen,Jane
  Mansfield Park, ch.14.

There are only two kinds of government, the scarcely tolerable and the absolutely unbearable.

-Dafoe,JohnW
Characteristic remark, quoted in Murray Donnelly Dafoe of the Free Press (1968).

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