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Quote by James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but i

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. – James Thurber

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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. – James Thurber

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Women
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James Thurber
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Risk
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Haste, Hurry
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I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Haste, Hurry

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

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Haste, Hurry

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven. – Thomas Fuller

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Haste, Hurry

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. – Charles A. Stoddard

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Haste, Hurry

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Why kill time when one can employ it. – Proverb

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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