It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish (…)
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish (...)
[Samwise Gamgee; The Lord of the Rings, Bk. II, Chp. 7, The Mirror of Galadriel]
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The full version of this quote is:
‘It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say. And I don’t reckon that these folk can do much more to help us, magic or no. It’s when we leave this land that we shall miss Gandalf worse, I’m thinking.’
