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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

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so…. But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination. – Ralph D. Paine, Roads of Adventure

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He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. – Elizabeth Bibesco

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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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If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesnt go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one hes got. – Will Rogers

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