"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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Patience
― Baltasar Gracian
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- "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience."― John Updike
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- "You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."― Stanislaw Lec