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Saturday, February 12, 2005
Procrastination
Hesiod, Works and Days 410-413 (tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White):
Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.