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Sentences of a paragraph are given below. While the first and the last sentences (S1 and S6) are in the correct order, the sentences in between are jumbled up. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. S1. Perseverance is the very hinge of all virtues. A. The smallest brook on earth, by continuing to run, has hollowed out for itself a considerable valley to flow in. B. It is in the vacillating and desultory mode of using them, in flying from object to object, in staring away at each little disgust, and thus applying the force which might conquer any one difficulty to a series of difficulties, so large that no human force can conquer them. C. Commend me therefore to the virtue of perseverance. D. On looking over the world, the cause of nine-tenths of the lamentable failures which occur in men's undertakings, and darken and degrade so much of their history, lies not in the want of talents, or the will to use them. S6. Without it all the rest are little better than fairy gold, which glitters in your purse, but when taken to market proves to be slate and cinders.