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By Leo Tolstoy
But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
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- War and Peace (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude), Book Ten, Chapter XVI
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- Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #2600
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From War and Peace (Book Ten, Chapter 16), in the English translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Spoken by the character Prince Kutuzov, the Russian commander in chief, to Prince Andrew, not by Tolstoy himself. Tolstoy wrote in Russian, so this is the translators' wording.