“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

Quoted in [Shapiro, Fred R., The Yale Book of Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA545, 2006, Yale University Press, 0-300-10798-6, 545]

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Norwegian polar explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1861–1930

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