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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. - Amb

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, thats a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel. – Ingrid Newkirk

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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. – Gertrude Stein

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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me – it was the sublime quality of patience – patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment – which I sadly lacked. – Abdus Salam

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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. – Thomas Aquinas

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