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Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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.
