Quote by John Updike
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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else ones patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days. – Joshua Slocum

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Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. – Evelyn Underhill

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I have no patience at all. – Alan Sugar

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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. – Horace Bushnell

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