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“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
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- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0a472ee345b31562546e61afd9dfe194a00e896b8f25218b756b72f301c2cbf8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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