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Allowances Quotes
On the allowances we make for each other.
Most of these quotes use 'allowances' in the sense of cutting someone slack, for local ties, for ill health, for circumstances readers can't see, rather than the literal, financial meaning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
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When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
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Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.
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The suspension of allowances was temporary and was to be reviewed periodically. It was reviewed in the appropriate time after our oil revenue improved.
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I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.
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Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
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It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.
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All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.
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I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart.
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.
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