"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
"There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear."
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Source: Jean de La Fontaine (1841). “Fables of La Fontaine”, p.82
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