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A person who does not “suffer fools gladly” is one who does not tolerate stupidity in others.

QUIZZES

Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

Question 1 of 7

Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

I suffer from no delusion that the justice system treats black and white equally.
Bill de Blasio’s Tea Party Problem|Will Cain|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain?
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats|Daniel DiSalvo|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“One-third of South Asians and more than half of all Sub-Saharan Africans suffer from malnutrition or undernutrition,” he writes.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The birds are debeaked, suffer ulcers, and terrible feet conditions.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

He was instructed several times to abuse the kids, he says, or he would suffer the abuse.
Beaten By His Church for Being Gay|Justin Jones|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Few of us there are who would not gladly read and speak several more languages if we had the chance of doing so.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
We suffer, nearly all of us, from a lack of quantitative grasp and from an imperfect grasp of form.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
England gladly seized the opportunity of injuring her enemy and sent aid to the people of Spain.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
My mother opposed her vow to his; not to suffer her child to leave her, till the time of her being professed.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter