"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.“
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
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