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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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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – 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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Patience is also a form of action. – Auguste Rodin

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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. – Peter Marshall

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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them. – Larry Hagman

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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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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! – William Lloyd Garrison

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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes

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I havent got a car or a house. Ive got a wife, but I didnt pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. Shes here with a knife at my throat! – Mackenzie Crook

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The wish for healing has ever been the half of health. – Seneca

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