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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.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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.'
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.