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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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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He that can have patience can have what he will. – Benjamin Franklin

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Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. – Phaedrus

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Patience means restraining ones inclinations. – Tokugawa Ieyasu

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We have no patience with other peoples vanity because it is offensive to our own. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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