“Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
