"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred."
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Source: Ovid, Banier (M. l'abbé, Antoine), Bernard Picart (1717). “Ovid's Metamorphoses: In Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables, Written in French by the Abbot Banier, ... Translated Into English. Adorned with Sculptures by B. Picart, and Other Able Masters”, p.529
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