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

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I suffer from no delusion that the justice system treats black and white equally.
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How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain?
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“One-third of South Asians and more than half of all Sub-Saharan Africans suffer from malnutrition or undernutrition,” he writes.
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The birds are debeaked, suffer ulcers, and terrible feet conditions.
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He was instructed several times to abuse the kids, he says, or he would suffer the abuse.
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The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
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Few of us there are who would not gladly read and speak several more languages if we had the chance of doing so.
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We suffer, nearly all of us, from a lack of quantitative grasp and from an imperfect grasp of form.
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England gladly seized the opportunity of injuring her enemy and sent aid to the people of Spain.
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My mother opposed her vow to his; not to suffer her child to leave her, till the time of her being professed.
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