“Although the words run speedily, the hand is swifter than they; the tongue has not yet, the hand has already, completed its work.”

— Martial , book Epigrammata

XIV, 208.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

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Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.

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