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“Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."”
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- Source:
- Apothegms. No. 76.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 74da3f7cd3cced284be1b6f2fcc3d6677b16629d9da5cb9ebb613382460dee57
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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