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So much patient perseverance could not but eventually succeed
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“So much patient perseverance could not but eventually succeed”

Samuel Smiles

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The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson
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1868
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Smiles describes Stephenson’s progress in arithmetic as the cumulative result of study and patient persistence rather than easy aptitude.

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The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson, Chapter IV, “The Stephensons at Killingworth—Education and Self-Education of Father and Son”; represented 1868 revised edition, Project Gutenberg #46229. The excerpt is Smiles’s narration of Stephenson’s patient arithmetic study under John Wigham.

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