“Chi vuol far, vadia, e chi non vuol far, mandi.”

— Giovanni Maria Cecchi

La Dote, Act 7., Scene II. — (Ippolito).
Translation: If you want a thing done, go yourself; if not, send.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 275.

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