Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 9 : Deliberate Speed
Jonathan Lighter
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Mon Nov 13 12:34:40 UTC 2006
I wonder if this turn of phrase was inspired by the well known adage of Augustus, "Make haste slowly."
JL
Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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deliberate speed (not in OED)
See Yale Book of Quotations for usages going back to 1817.
Fred Shapiro
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