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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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I have not the smarts or patience for political office. – Henry Rollins

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience. – Paul Boese

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Ive done an awful lot of stuff thats a monument to public patience. – Tyrone Power

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. – John Major

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Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). – Berlin Royal Library, inscription

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