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Proverb from Vietnam

Vietnamese

Có công mài sắt, có ngày nên kim.

“If you keep grinding an iron bar, one day it becomes a needle.”

Meaning

With patience and steady effort, even very hard goals can be reached.

Source

Phạm Quang Sán, Nam ngạn chích cẩm (1918), p. 43, scanned page on Vietnamese Wikisource

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