Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
Along the tables were benches of the same rough materials, with men and women, whites, Mestizoes, and Indians, all sitting together, as close as the solidity and resistance of human flesh would permit, and seemingly closer than was sufferable.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens
But if the machines are sufferable, that is, if they have so much as divine probability, then it follows of necessity, that the doctrine of the church is false; so that I leave it to every impartial clergyman to consider.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber