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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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. -
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off. -
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