“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Bk. X, ch. 16
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait… there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”
— Leo Tolstoy, book War and Peace
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