Perseverance is the chief; but perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our insane asylums.
Telephone inventor
From an interview in 'How They Succeeded' by Orison Swett Marden.
1901
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