"It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it."
"Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object."
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Source: Margaret Kennedy (1939). “The Midas Touch”, New York : Random House
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