To do two things at once is to do neither.

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Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit | He who follows two hares catches neither. | A Dictionary of Quotations in most frequent Use, David Evans Macdonnel, 1797, quoted in The Monthly Review, 1798, p. 467 | Apparently of medieval or modern origin, not found in antiquity.

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