"Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world."
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"I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear."
"The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation."
"I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable."
"Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear."
"These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us."
"Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest."
"It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him."
"I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day."