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“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 7.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8ed5d29a53c385f98f478500abc80a39356aa65e4933f07eda5a52a1ab81c69
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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