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An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)

Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée.

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Letter 33: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961).

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