Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 9 : Deliberate Speed

[Jonathan Lighter]

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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