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"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
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"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
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"For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you."
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"Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them."
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"If you are willing to wait, you will get what you want."
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"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
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"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."
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"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."
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"A delay want is never denial."
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"Don't be quick to get angry."
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"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."
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"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."
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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"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."
People

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
Failure

"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
Man

"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."
Man

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
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"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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