[Ads-l] Fast alone, far together

[Mark Mandel]

Thanks.
Mark Mandel


On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 2:09 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Google Books.
>
> JL
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 9:22 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This seems to be an extension of, or reply to, Kipling's "He travels the
> > fastest who travels alone" (The Winners ("The Story of the Gadsbys") <
> > https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/winners.html>).
> >
> > Of course, Kipling may have been using or adapting an older saying, but
> the
> > redoubtable Quote Investigator doesn't have it.
> >
> > (Now watch 3 or a dozen listies point it out in Shakespeare.)
> >
> > Jonathan: "GB"?
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 8:52 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > MSNBC:
> > >
> > > "There's a saying in the Justice Department: 'You can go fast alone or
> > far
> > > together.'"
> > >
> > > GB: 2012.
> > >
> > > I've heard this once before, but can't say just when. Certainly within
> > the
> > > past ten years or so.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > >
> >
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