“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”

— Honoré de Balzac

Tout pouvoir humain est un composé de patience et de temps.
Eugénie Grandet http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_Grandet (1833), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. VI.

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Tout pouvoir humain est un composé de patience et de temps.

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French writer 1799–1850

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