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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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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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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Beware the fury of a patient man. – John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

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I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting. – Robert Falcon Scott

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I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. – David Duchovny

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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. Thats the truth. And on that note, Ill say goodnight. God love you. – Bobby Darin

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