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Well Begun is Half Done
“The beginning is half the whole.”
(Pythagoras.)
French: “Heureux commencement est
la moitiéde l'oeuvre.” “Ce n'est que le premier
pas qui coûe.” Latin: “Incipe
dimidium facti est coepisse.”
(Ausonius.)
“Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet.”
Horace.
“Facilius est incitare currentem, quam commovere
languentem.” (Cicero.)
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