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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a ma

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. – Lord Chesterfield

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Learning
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Lord Chesterfield
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield

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Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. – Evelyn Underhill

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He preacheth patience that never knew pain. – H. G. Bohn

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Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else ones patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days. – Joshua Slocum

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