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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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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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Dios tarda pero no olvida — God delays but doesnt forget. – Proverb

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Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off. – Nicholas Brendon

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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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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? – William Shakespeare

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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. – Author Unknown

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I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things. – Cat Stevens

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I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. – William Banting

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

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