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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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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – 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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Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed. – Cee Lo Green

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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. – Bret Harte

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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. – Gail Simmons

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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. – Robert H. Schuller

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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. – Mark Strand

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