If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few t…

Samuel Johnson
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1834). The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale, p.14
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1834). The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale, p.14

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