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Quotation from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Patience and time are my warriors, my champions”
War and Peace, Book Thirteen, Ch. XVII, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude
The old commander resists the generals' demands for an offensive, waiting for the French army to fall like a ripe apple.
Citation: "Patience and time are my warriors, my champions" — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book Thirteen, Ch. XVII, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude. (id tolstoy-war-and-peace-q6)
Portrait: L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Public domain.
