Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

Chinese Proverb

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles - on her own nose all the time.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

Russian proverb

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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