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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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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. – Stanislaw Lec

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It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. – Elizabeth Taylor

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I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I dont have the patience. – Dave Navarro

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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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