Allowances

Famous quotes containing the word allowances:

    Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)