I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.
Frank HarrisAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: irish
- Born: February 14, 1856
- Died: August 27, 1931
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