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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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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – 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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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Slow and steady wins the race. – Aesop

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Ive worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being normal has been so important to me. – Kenny Loggins

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Genius is eternal patience. – Michelangelo

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It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. – Khaleda Zia

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If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage. – George Carey

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. – Douglas Yates

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