“Well, he used to say that the great thing in married life was patience. Do you hear, Vanya? Not love, but patience. Love cannot last long. You have lived two years in love, and now evidently your married life has reached the period when, in order to preserve equilibrium, so to speak, you ought to exercise all your patience. . . .” Seagull
There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. The Art Of War
Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip. The Man Who Laughs
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. Mark Twain's Notebook
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