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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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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. – Ambrose Bierce

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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. – Ambrose Bierce

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Patience is sorrows salve. – Charles Churchill

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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. – Frances OGrady

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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. – Herman Hesse

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. – Stanislaw Lec

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. – Desiderius Erasmus

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It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. – Mark Twain

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