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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. - Ambrose

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. – Ambrose Bierce

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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and its cowardice. – George Jackson

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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. – Baltasar Gracian

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Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. – Peter Stuyvesant

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