“Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón , book Marina

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Spanish writer 1964

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

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“Patience is a conquering virtue.”

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet

“Patience is not my dominant virtue.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

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“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

From article "In Defense of Curiosity" appearing in The Saturday Evening Post 208 (August 24, 1935); 8-9, 64-66. As cited in What I Hope to Leave Behind, The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt Edited by Alida M. Black, p 20.
As quoted in Todays Health (October 1966)