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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. – Lord Chesterfield

Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. – Lord Chesterfield

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Fear
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Lord Chesterfield
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. – Lord Chesterfield

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Laziness
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Haste
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu

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Haste

What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Haste

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Haste

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. – Saint Vincent de Paul

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Haste

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