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George Eliot on Patience

1819–1880 England

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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Adam Bede (1859)

Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.

The Legend of Jubal (1869)

Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.

Middlemarch (1871)

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