I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
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Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. 1907. (Public domain)
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