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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1842
AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935)
QUOTATION: The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
ATTRIBUTION: Justice OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “Ideals and Doubts,” Collected Legal Papers, p. 305 (1937).
SUBJECTS: Trying