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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."

"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."
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