John Updike's Quote - A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times

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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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Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. – Peter Stuyvesant

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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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Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Endurance is patience concentrated. – Thomas Carlyle

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