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Quotation from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“By the time you have stood there as long as I did, you will begin to learn patience!”
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Three Golden Apples (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242)
Returning with the apples, the giant laughs at Hercules, whom he means to leave holding up the sky for a thousand years.
Citation: "By the time you have stood there as long as I did, you will begin to learn patience!" — Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Three Golden Apples (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242). (id a-wonder-book-q5)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
