“Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.”

— Hesiod, book Works and Days

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 410.

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