Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a s…

George Eliot
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.152, Penguin
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