"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
— Perseverance

January 1, 1970

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston, Ticknor and company: 1887), p. 373 (Ch. XIX. Table-talk.)