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Show Dispatch. Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerons tilings to business that can be. It is like that which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion, which is sure to fill the body full of crudities and secret seeds of disease. Therefore measure not dispatch by time of sitting, but by the advancement of the business, and as in races it is not the large stride or high lift that makes the speed, so in business the keeping close to the matter, and not taking of it too much at once, procures dispatch. It is the care of some only to come off speedily for the time, or to contrive some false periods of business, busi-ness, because they may seem men of dispatch; dis-patch; but it is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off, and business so handled at several sittings sit-tings or meetings grows commonly backward back-ward and forward in an unsteady manner. man-ner. We knew a wise man that had for a byword, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion: "Stay ft little, that we may end the sooner." New York Ledger. |