“An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.”

— Giovanni Boccaccio , book The Decameron

Per lo primo colpo non cade la quercia.
Seventh Day, Ninth Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)
The Decameron (c. 1350)

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Per lo primo colpo non cade la quercia.

The Decameron (c. 1350)

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Italian author and poet 1313–1375

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