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OftenBen  ·  3344 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm surrounded by genius

I think there's a translation issue here. Shakespearean 'suffer' likely doesn't mean what most of us think when we hear that word.





lil  ·  3278 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it meant "to tolerate" in the 17th century.

The phrase "suffer fools" is Biblical not Shakespearean.