“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”
“The people are patient, but the stomach cannot wait too long.”
Djakarta Dispatches https://books.google.com/books?id=R8oAbRp1gVsC&pg=RA35-PP15&lpg=RA35-PP15&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960)
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