Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Source
- Samuel Longfellow (ed.) Final Memorials (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887) Ch. 19: Table-Talk
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