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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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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you dont resent them, you are not fit to live. – Bernard de Mandeville

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. – Matthew Arnold

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. – Francis Bacon

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Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. – Bill Brandt

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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. – Arnold Palmer

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The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. – Jane Wyman

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