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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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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. – Ambrose Bierce

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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 am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. – Edith Sitwell

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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public. – Yingluck Shinawatra

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People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient. – Ernie Banks

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler

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And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected. – Chris Christie

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