“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Act V, sc. 1.
The Drummer (1716)
“Dispatch is the soul of business.”
5 February 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
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