“Masterly inactivity may be prudence to one man, desperate rashness to another.”
Arthur Kekewich (1832–1907) British judge
In re Liverpool Household Stores Assoc. (1890), 59 L. J. Rep. C. D. 618.
“Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.”
— O. Henry
"The Ethics of Pig"
The Gentle Grafter (1908)
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