Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. - George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne - Quotesmemo.com

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George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

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Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

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Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

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Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

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