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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."

"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."

"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."

"When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther."
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"Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost."

"Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality."

"Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy."

"No person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people."

"The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed."

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and see the beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead."

"That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct."

"Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you."
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