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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.