“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
Book VI, ch. iii
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.”
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John Ray
Source: English Proverbs (1670), p. 48
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Context: Good decision-making is like playing chess and you must avoid making hasty decisions without thinking of how that particular decision will impact on different aspects of your work and organization. The worst kind of decision-making is to decide to delay a difficult decision until later or to pass it to someone else to have to make. You will never excel and be valued by your colleagues if you get into these habits of procrastination and passing responsibility to others.