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NUMBER:50667
QUOTATION:Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
ATTRIBUTION:William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 3, sc. 7, l. 24-5.

“A good rebuke,” as Antony remarks (l. 25).
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Shakespeare Collection.
 
 
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