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Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".

"Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." This last was one of her many Dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled English.

Which English idiom has the same meaning as the one underlined in this excerpt?

A - We’re all in the same boat.
B - You are barking up the wrong tree.
C - Let sleeping dogs lie.
D - Slow and steady wins the race.

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D- slow and steady wins the race.
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