“To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny”
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George Washington186
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Isabella Fyvie Mayo (1843–1914) Scottish poet, novelist, reformer
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Aurangzeb (1618–1707) Sixth Mughal Emperor
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“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Book I, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.”
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As quoted in O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture (1963) by Edmund Wilson
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Walter Elliot (1842–1928) American priest