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Ambrose Bierce

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."

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