"Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow."
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"Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay."
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"There is no avoidance in delay."
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"In delay there lies no plenty."
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"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."
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"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about."
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"Delay not to seize the hour!"
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"I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why."
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"No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork."
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"Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."
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"What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process."
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"If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home."
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"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."
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"Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction."
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"Delay always heeds danger."
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"We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?"
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"I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families."
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"Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do."
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"It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine."
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"Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life."
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